Feeling Good In My New Sweater

I recently finished a test knit for Beth MacDonald Stone, the Bermy Basic 28.  Even before I started test knitting it, I knew it was a great sweater design Beth had come up with.  I had been following her other Bermy Basics in other gauges, thinking what a fantastic idea to do all the math for us blind followers and collectors of yarn in our PYS (penny's or personal yarn shop) aka your stash of sweater quantities.

When she did a call out on her podcast for test knitters for the next round of Bermy Basics, I told myself why not, and sent off an email for any of the next three gauges she was doing, and also told her I was not afraid of finger weight yarn and what size I would like to knit.  She said yes, and so the hunt was on for yarn in pys and a design to ramp my Bermy Basic up and make it a bit different than just a plain one.  Let me just interject here, Beth was totally on board with all of the test knitters taking liberties with the design, add colorwork, add lace, add design elements, add texture!  The goal is to showcase that the knitter could take the design and make it their own.

My first problem was I really didn't have a sweater's quantity in my PYS that was going to fit the bill.  The second problem is that I knew I did not want to just knit a plain sweater in a variegate or tonal and have to helical knit.  

I want to my local yarn shop, The Fiber Universe, and she had two Malabrigo Sock yarns next to each other that I thought totally went well together, and started feeling a possible stripe vibe.

The consensus of knitters there at the time was they would look good together striped.  I was thinking of a Super Summer Sweater striping effect, but the more I thought about it, the less I liked duplicating a sweater I already had.  Then Fibonacci method came into my mind and after a little of googling settled on using that method for my stripes, and voila, my Bermy Basic started coming to life.

I won't bore you with all the details again, but finally finished it last week and got some photos yesterday.

I love it!  It feels good on and it fits.  

I was a tad worried as I knit it, wondering if it would fit, as others kept asking me if it would and the neck was an issue for other knitters as they thought it was going to be too close.  After a nice blocking, it fit perfectly, just right.  And the neck, while it is not a Summer sweater, it stays just where I want it to and doesn't fall down around the shoulders.

I made the sleeves bracelet length on purpose and was very purposeful about making sure the stripes came across the body and onto the sleeves just right.

When I went to take pics yesterday, I remembered a jean jacket that I had slated for the donate pile, as I didn't wear it much and only had one thing to go with it and that was a Summer tank, which just wasn't the thing to wear under it, so I popped it over my sweater and voila, I was in love with the whole ensemble especially for right now!

And that is the end of this test knit!  I am 100% in love with the pattern, the yarn, the fit and it just feels so good.  Check all of Beth's Bermy Basics out there now and those coming down the pike soon.  You won't be disappointed!! 

Finally Finished Friday!

 The Friday Tee from Petite Knit has had several starts and finishes in several ways over quite a span of time.

You can catch some of the details over on my podcast, PJKnits on You Tube, Episode 115.

Or check out my project page on Ravelry.  Friday Tee Project Page

Or over on Instagram, I'm pjknits there.

Although, it took me forever to have a finally finished, I am loving it so much!  Putting it on a list to knit again, changing up some of the mods that I made to mine to get a better fit!

Have a great weekend!  And Happy Birthday to my boys!