"Devlan" by Bristol Ivy FO

Pattern: Devlan by Bristol Ivy

Yarn: Shepherd and Shearer 2013 Remnants

Source: Juniper Moon Farm Website

Needles: 4mm, 4.5mm and 5mm circular and dpn's

Start: August 23 Finish: October 26, 2014

Modifications: Worked fewer picked up stitches around collar, used smaller needles than called for on ridged sections of front and back.

I love this sweet, swingy little sweater! The narrow sleeves and close fitting shoulders (made a bit more snug going down a needle size when working the garter ridged sections) keep its' generous a-line cut from swamping me. (I also knit the collar on fewer stitches than called for to keep it neat and trim.)

Devlan is trendy but I think still works well in this traditional, minimally processed, yarn.

As ever, the BT pattern is detailed and a pleasure to work with, easily yielding a well appointed garment. Specifically Devlan's features lie in its shaping. At no point in time are you ever not counting rows or working to a marker of some description - kind of a surprise in what looks, at first glance, like a straightforward stockinette sweater.

There's extra length across lower back edge...

The close fit across the shoulders via shaping front and back south of the ridged detail...

Paired decreases running up either side of the front...

And importantly, decreases almost the full length of the sleeves to keep them trim enough so as not to compete with the soft folds of the sweater's body...

Once again I worked the third size on a BT pattern...

It seems to be working for me and my figure! (Cue the Hallelujah Chorus!)

Hudson's "working" for me too...up at 5:00 a.m. to go to an out of town Obedience Trial then home to a photo shoot...

It all makes a poodle sleepy!

Next up, the back story on squeeking this knit out of remnant yarn and the renovations to My Beloved's "Shearer" sweater that made it possible. ('Too much information to cram into one post today!)

Thanks for dropping by!