Ms. Tres Chic Veronique is currently working on a super cute cardi to match a super cute summer dress. After drooling over it thinking how that's going to be such the perfect summer sweater, I thought to myself, "HEY! I have that pattern. I can make that. too!" So I whipped out Vintage style, found the pattern and stared. Wait just a darn minute. This is the same, but.. it's different. Checking V's blog again, she said she was knitting Agnes from Rowan 35. So I pulled out Rowan 35 and well what do you know..
Both sweaters were designed by Kim Hargreaves. Does this count as "recycling"? It's the same basic sweater but different embellishments and sleeve lengths. Okay, so it's not the same EXACT sweater, if you take away the beads and the french knots in the contrast color and make the sleeves the same length, it's the exact same sweater.
Agnes, Rowan 35
Interesting, isn't it? Anyways, "recycling" aside, I'm planning on making this sweater (thanks for the inspiration V!). It's just a matter of which version I want to make and/or how I want to mix and match them. Joy requires a heck of a lot of beads, 5,300 to be exact. And I'm not sure at this point if that's something I want to deal with. It's a bit hard to tell from the photo, but there are rows of diagonal lines on the sweeater formed by the beads. Would I be able to get the same textural effect just by substituting those bead stitches with by purling them instead? Or should I follow the stitch pattern on Agnes? All good questions that need answers and I'm not sure if I'm ready yet to answer them yet. But until then, I'm still waiting for my yarn to arrive (some Yorkshire 4ply in a cream color) and I'll continue to work on my Turbulence U-Neck Pullover that I started a week and a half ago.
So far the back is done and I'm a few inches into the front. In other knitting news, I finished one Charade sock already and I still have 3 finished objects to show you. Why the delay? The perfectionist in me doesn't like the FO photos, so I will have to retake them.