I’m a neutral gal when it comes to clothing but I could not resist this grey based yarn with hundreds of vibrant coloured bits. As soon as I saw this Hedgehog Fibres Tweedy yarn, I ordered it without knowing what I would use it for.
It’s an expensive yarn so I only bought four skeins of it and was limited to what I could make from it. After a year of contemplating, I settled on a t-shirt, playing it safe to make sure I don’t run out of yarn mid project.
Originally I started this sweater as a bottom-up raglan sleeve and I nearly finished it but it just didn’t work for me. After I unravelling the top part three times I finally just unravelled the whole thing and started with a completely different construction.
It looked fine at this point but I realised I’m not going to waste this gorgeous yarn on something that I was not 95% happy with (never 100%, always something I could do better). I also realised that I don’t like the raglan, it’s too sporty and doesn’t accomodate my sharp wide shoulders well.
After unravelling and re-balling(?) the yarn, I got back on the horse with a different plan in mind. I don’t know what the name of this type of shoulder construction is but I have many store-bought knitwear I wear often that are very similar and now I know how to make it myself! I will definitely be using this pattern (it’s Poppy Tee by PetiteKnit, with little modifications) for lots of projects in the future, both short and long sleeve I’m sure.
In the end it was well worth it to re-work the whole sweater because the end result is pretty nice in my opinion.
A few notes for my future self when I use this pattern again: make sure to try it on multiple times when doing the shoulder construction and add extra increases to make it wide enough at the start, following the pattern was cutting it too close because there is very little stretch on that direction. With wider shoulders, balance it out with a few decreases under the armpit on the body and underside of the sleeves (or do less increases for the sleeve section at the top of the shoulders). This way the whole sweater has similar positive ease throughout and doesn’t end up looking like it flares out which is unflattering.
