Nantucket Sweater

 

 

Here are two shots of my recently completed "Nantucket" sweater knit in hand spun 2 ply merino.


I bought the merino roving several years ago at the "Farm and Land Show" in Aalten in the Netherlands and have had it, in the stash, spun up for quite a while without a goal.

The sweater is dedicated to a very dear friend, Heidi Jie, a prolific and very talented knitter and quilter with whom I shared the show experience. It was under the sway of her enthusiastiasm in the pursuit of some red merino roving from the same vendor that I encountered this blue and decided to buy it.

It might have worked better in this sweater if the yarn had been a 3 ply or cable as the stitch and cable definition are not as sharp as in the original pattern which was shown on the cover of the winter issue of Interweave Knits, however I am satisfied with the results. Clear stitch definition or not, it fits and the cables and raised ridges are quite apparent close up and tactilly so. The most important thing for today, anyway, is that it goes nicely with and over my polar fleece body warmer as although the temperature in Houston has gone up, the wind is still bitter.

The sweater used up 900 yards or 145g of the total of 2100 yards of merino that I got out of the original kilo (2.2) pounds of merino roving. The remainder of the yarn, all skeined, measured and weighed has retreated back into the stash until another project seems suitable.