FO: Accidental Stripes

I am so happy with this sweater! It really came together well, and I only had to rip back and change things a couple of times. I chose to use the numbers for A Cropped Sweater for Winter because she really knows sweater construction and I knew it would be a really straightforward and easy knit, and I'm familiar enough with her patterns and construction to know I could modify the heck out of it and not get lost.

I knew I wanted to lengthen the body to hip length. The body was actually two stripes shorter the first time I bound off, but it hit at a weird point, and I knew it was going to ride up some, so I undid the bindoff and added two more stripes.

The sleeves really worried me for a while. Initially I had planned to introduce a third color in the sleeves, but I ended up not liking how it looked and ripped them back. Then I was worried about how long the sleeves would end up. Fortunately, they're the perfect length-this is the length I usually cuff my sleeves to, so go me!

I also totally changed the sleeve shaping. Instead of decreasing 4sts every third row, I halved that, which gives me a really loose upper sleeve before tapering down to fit my forearm. At some angles it looks baggy, but it's so comfortable, and it gives me room to wear a t-shirt under it if I want instead of a tank. For this sweater, I'm all about comfort, and the sleeves are definitely comfortable, and I'm glad I didn't go more tailored.

Ravelry Page: Accidental Stripes
Pattern: A Cropped Sweater for Winter by Andi Satterlund
Yarn: Knit Picks Wool of the Andes Worsted

The Mods:

I removed 2 rows before underarm increases

The body stripes are 8 rows wide-I carried yarn down right side, tacking down every 4 rows

For fit I only co 4sts for each underarm

I wanted it looser up top and more fitted below the bust, so I did all waist decreases, then knit six rounds plain, then just two sets of increase rounds for lower torso

Increased length to hit at hip

For the cuffs, neck, and waist: knit one round blue, then seven rounds 1x1 rib in blue

Sleeves:

pick up 70sts around arm opening

dec 2sts every 3rd row 15x

knit sleeve cap in blue

16 rounds red

8 rounds blue

8 rounds red

4 rounds blue

4 rounds red

4 rounds blue

4 rounds red

cuffs blue