Knit a sweater from scratch

“This sweater took me 3-4 weeks of knitting chill a bit every day (and unraveling or dropping stitches when i made a mistake). I've been crocheting for almost 1 year, but even if i love crochet and its textured stitches, i wanted to jump into knitting world. I started with a 10x10 square with all stitches twisted, then a well-made sample, and straight to the sweater. I didn't want to start with a monotonous project like a square, but something that would challenge me a bit and keep me entertained (like a game hahaha). I thought about starting with a bottom-up sweater with set-in sleeves, because I imagined it would be a project where I could have a lot of circular work (so, practice tension with the knit stitches), a small flat area to practice the purl. I had also seen how easy it is to unravel with lifelines, so I wasn't afraid to make mistakes and restart a section if after 3 rows I saw that I didn't like it. I also took advantage of the project because I knew that after learning to control tension with large repetition zones, I could easily learn to increase and decrease stitches. I used a lot of math, and notes in my notebook, but I achieved the fit I was looking for! I also learned to knit with magic loop, and to do 2 different types of elastic stitch :') all knowing purl and knit! And yes, these are the leftovers from all my crochet projects (the big bag of leftover yarn!), which I separated by color family and then mixed a bit randomly depending on the quantities!”

“Then it was time to knit up the sleeves. I had partial skeins left over from both panels, and the third skein called for in the pattern. I decided to use the partial skeins together — but after completing the first sleeve, I really didn’t like how it looked. I thought that after some time away from the sleeve, I would get over my dislike of the lack of transition from light gray to dark blue, so I knit the second sleeve. But after finishing sleeve two, I knew I couldn’t live with sleeve one. So I frogged the sleeve to the light gray, and started again. Although I still think sleeve two is much better than sleeve one, I’m happy I reknit sleeve one.”