Finished Project

Finished Project: Dagmar Zip in Lucky Tweed

I was chatting with Bailey the other day and casually mentioned that while I have knit sweaters in Scout, I have yet to finish a sweater for myself in Scout. There is no real reason for this, as you've all proven time and time again that it is a perfect sweater yarn. This chat got me thinking: which yarn have I used the most for my own sweaters? The clear winner is Lucky; I've finished three sweaters (so far), including this bad boy, the Dagmar Zipper Sweater by PetiteKnit.For those of you that follow along, I actually finished this sweater back in February. But we were out of Lucky, so I held off on taking photos until we actually had some yarn. And then, as you now know, I was diagnosed with breast cancer at the end of March and took a pretty extensive amount of time off of work while in treatment. And so this lovely Dagmar sweater waited. And waited. And waited some more. At least two Lucky orders came (and went), and now here we are, on the cusp of fall, a Lucky order just arrived (and another is imminent!), I am cancer free, doing my best to embrace my new "normal", and it is finally time for this sweater's day in the spotlight!I followed the pattern pretty closely except for my usual conversion to working back and forth. This one was a pretty easy modification; once the yoke was complete, I knit the front and back separately and the sleeves flat. I also picked up fewer stitches around the sleeves but kept the decreases as written so the cuffs were a little smaller in circumference (another common mod for me these days).I only managed to wear the sweater a few times before getting sick, so I'm really delighted to have what is essentially a brand new sweater to wear this fall. And maybe now I should cast on something in Scout? 

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