Red pullover was born first, a good while ago - in fact, this is one of my very first knitted garments (hence minor snags here and there and rather untidy seams). I still love it to bits and wear it as often as I can.
It doesn't look like much on a hanger, so I decided to overlook my hatred for camera and snap a few pictures on Yours Truly.
Blue pullover is destined for my sister. I promised to make this for her over a year ago and it doesn't really matter that it took me forever, what counts is that I'm finally delivering, right? Right? Lucky creature, she's two sizes smaller than me and I wanted her version to be a bit fancier, so I improvised with crocheted flowers.
This particular picture lies terribly about colour, others are more accurate.
Flowers can be moved around, or even removed.
I wasn't sure if crocheted flowers are exactly my sister's thing, so just in case I stitched pieces of velcro to the back rather than stitching flowers on permanently. It may not be a durable solution, but for now I'm very happy with the result.
A closer look at stitches used:
PATTERN:
Pattern comes from a Polish knitting magazine, Dama w Swetrze from April 2006. I have no idea if the pattern is available in English anywhere - sorry.
Original instructions specify chunkier yarn but my pullovers are knitted from DK. I had to recalculate pretty much everything, but well, little counting never killed anybody.
Crochet flower pattern comes from here. It's free and really worth checking out - flowers are sweet and extra easy to make.
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