FO-Imogen

Ta-da! This yarn (which I called, A, B and C from left to right):

became this sweater:


To avoid major pooling, I ended up switching between all three skeins of yarn for the back (as it was, I ended up switching the direction of skeins A and B because the first way still had pooling), then making the "top" of the sweater the "bottom" and vice versa, so that I wouldn't have to pick up from my very loose edge that had all of the carried yarn. My right arm was skeins A and C; my left arm was skeins B and C. I tried to use up skeins A and B as much as possible on the visible parts of the sweater, so the front left was also B and C, the front right was A and C, and the very top between the short rows (basically, the row that was knit or purl all the way to the other side) was C, the red skein.

Originally I was going to put EZ afterthought pockets into the sides (since it's a side-to-side cardigan, I'd have vertical pockets) but after I finished, I realized that the front sides curl open too much and the pockets would show. That's the only bummer. Well, that and the fact that thanks to that one red skein, the entire FO is warmer than anticipated. Very autumny, which is appropriate for now (forget the fact that I live in a beach community where everyone runs around in shorts, tank tops and flip-flops everyday).

I'd been planning on knitting my mom one of these too (I like to amortize the cost of patterns I buy, what can I say) but she doesn't like how the front edge curls and is longer than the hem/bottom. So we'll see if I end up making one for her or if she changes her mind (as it is, we can't seem to finalize on a yarn yet). But I'll probably end up making Itty Bitty another one when she grows out of her Noro Taiyo one.