This was just after Ling Ling’s birthday and I was touched that he approved of the piece.
The yarn was from a Peter Storm sweater that I bought in a backpacking store when I lived in Urbana IL. It was a great sweater, brioche rib raglan sleeve pullover in sport weight yarn. I kept it after it developed holes in the elbows and the lower edge and cuffs got frayed. I unraveled it before I moved from Milwaukee. The washed skeins stayed in my stash until I got on a sweater kick this winter. The main thing I didn’t like about the original sweater was that it was knit in pieces and sewn together. This made it possible to unravel, but it was rather bulky under the arms.
Because I wasn’t sure how far the yarn would go, I cast on without ribbing. The white thread along the lower edge is from where I basted it shut so it wouldn’t curl. The pocket formed is a good place to store the extra ball of yarn after you divide the work at the armholes.
There was plenty of yarn left after I made a one piece plain knit sweater with set in sleeves. A new sweater rises from the yarn of the old!
[Note: this is a post dated entry]
