FO: Very Own Swing Jacket

Really, this is the last one. Don't expect another FO for say, 6 months maybe? Okay, I hope not that long, but there is a reason for all these FO's at once. Like everyone else it seems, I have cast-on-itis this fall. But I had made myself a promise that I wouldn't cast-on anything new until the 3 major things on my needles were done. Amazingly I kept that promise despite great temptation.

Final major FO...presenting the Drops jacket that has a long generic name that I don't feel like looking up at the moment and if you are a knitter I'm almost positive you know this pattern anyway. I personally think it should be called the Drops Swing Jacket since swing it certainly does. Deets on Ravelry.

Let's review the time line on this shall we? Even though it's a knit everyone and their sister knits, I always liked the look of it. And then I saw this version and it brought it to the top of the queue last fall. I found the same yarn greatly reduced in price...but also color options. I chose orange. It was fall. Seemed appropriate. Started the knit and finished the back and one side of the front very quickly. Then put it down for holiday knitting. Picked it back up after the holidays and finished everything but the neck when I ran out of yarn. Oy. Finally tracked down a skein of a different dyelot hoping it would work and amazingly enough it did. Finished the neck back in oh, March maybe? And there it sat cuz the next step was seaming. How to best avoid seaming? Start another sweater. Or two. With the promise I made to myself and thinking fall is definitely the best time to complete an orange sweater, I broke down and seamed the darn thing a couple weeks ago.

By this point I had decided I wasn't going to like the sweater. Color out of my range of comfort and unblocked it just fit horribly. I know blocking can do miracles but I didn't think it was going to work on this sweater. Proven wrong luckily. It's a loose-fitting, VERY comfortable sweater with a dramatic swing thing going on that I actually like (although if I ever knit this again, I think I'll do a smaller size with less decreases to make it a bit less A-line). I honestly don't know if the color works on me and I think most folks would consider it too big, but I love it and have already worn it twice since I pulled it off the blocking board (which is why it is wrinkly).

And since it is autumn, I should include a picture with at least some 'autumnish' color in it.

Casting on has begun!
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