I bought the yarn a while ago because I really enjoyed working with it when I knitted up the Boardwalk Vest for my girlfriend’s 70th. I bought the yarn just before the pandemic, and was thinking to make a guernsey sweater at the time, design it myself, but along the way I lost my umph, found a different guernsey style sweater which I just finished knitting up and found the perfect pattern for this yarn the weekender light! Sometimes you can’t plan things better than letting them develop by themselves.
After a quick review of the tubular cast on I am off and running. I will follow instructions, knitting the body inside out although as a Continental Knitter, I find the knit and Purl stitch equally easy.
I am going for a 5“ positive ease, working a size between 0 and 1 for my 33“ chest.

11.6. What do you think about the picture I took for my Facebook page “ Knit With Doris/ Discover Your Inner Knitter”, reminding people to fall back one hour and suggest to use that extra hour for knitting time?

12.17. Been working on this on and off while also doing some gift knitting. And so I didn’t remember to switch to the smaller needle for the shoulder ribbing; YIKES!
I only realized after binding off the neck. I could still undo the ribbing and reknit on the smaller needles, but want to wait and see how much it influences the fit. I will decide after finishing the back….which I will deliberately do on #4 needles instead of #2 to match the front.

12.24. Finished the neck and right now I am not too sure about it….it’s wider than I like it, exposing my shoulders, while at the same time strangling me across the neck…. I have to give this some more thought before starting on the sleeves. Right now it is relatively easy to redo.
OR maybe it’s fine after blocking.

1. 1. I am glad that I didn’t make any rush decisions. This was on the back burner during the holidays and while I was recuperating from Covid. I had all kind of ideas on how to change the neckline, but before making any major decision, I blocked it and the drape of the fabric has changed so much that I can see how this is a perfectly nice neckline. The only thing I am changing is to add five sts on either shoulder to the shoulder seam for a smaller neck opening. This reduces the number of sts around the neck to a total of 2x 43=86 sts total around the neck. Now on to the sleeves.