Bozo's Contribution To The Wardrobe

If most of us are ashamed of shabby clothes and shoddy furniture, let us be more ashamed of shabby ideas and shoddy philosophies.... It would be a sad situation if the wrapper were better than the meat wrapped inside it. ~Albert Einstein

I finally finished my wrapper or sweater. I started it in June 2007. I made it from Bozo (handsome sucker isn't he?)so it is not really next to the skin wool but my criteria was...

1) easy pattern as I had never made a sweater

2) large as I hate to wear tight things

3) warm

4) easily adaptable

I hate coats and sweaters as I feel confined. I needed something warm enough to wear when I could no longer get away with just wearing a long sleeve shirt. I needed to be able to easily change length as I didn't want it so long that when I squatted down it would get in the dirt.

And I got this. Excuse the stitch markers, I didn't add buttons yet. Now what should I have done? I made it big to compensate for the rather large chest my mother was nice enough to bless me with..Thanks Mom...plus some. I should not have made it as big as I did. When I finally got back to it I forgot to add the button holes hence why the stitch markers only go so far down! This really isn't a problem as I don't usually button them (see #2). Although I love the variation in the fleece (which is what made me want to use it) I should have been more careful when I was adding a new skein to finish the raglan sleeves.

Once I was able to spin the wool to knit it, it went quickly. I love it because I fed him, sheared him, washed the fleece myself, carded it myself, spun it myself and knit it. And I said I would have it done by Spring and I had it done by Meteorological Spring. Now to finish the capelet and then I might even entertain the idea of doing another sweater.