This sweater for Oakley is supposed to be the sun rising on the Winter Solstice at Newgrange.

Used the spirals from the Newgrange shawl, altered a bit by adding some sts between the two outer rows on 2, and with 1 there is an extra outside row. Grafted the 3 together so that the sun is represented by the tri-spiral inside the tomb, then used the pinkish multi yarn border to represent the pinks of a sunrise.

The border is from the shawl pattern, only using moss st. I made some short rows with it (the basic reason for the moss st - so the short rows would be invisible) so that the border would round the corners. The little schematic I made for that is the second to last photo. I forget what it all means except that the short rows start 14 rows before the midpoint between spirals.

After the tri-spiral was finished, picked up sts around the edge, and then used those to sew the spiral on after the body was knit.

Tutleneck starts out dark blue for night, then 2 successively lighter blues representing the sun coming up, and finally green for the grass.

Newgrange notes:

• there are only 2 WS rows that differ from the typical k2sl2 - 50 and 94
• stick with one main color; the WS slipped stitches are an integral part of the design. They make the RS k columns pop out from the RS p columns. When using stranded knitting, the design flattens out and looks lackluster (see last photo)