FO Friday - Richmond Knitter's Bendigo sheep show jumper

Since 2019 the Richmond Knitters have select a pattern or a theme, and those of use who feel like it, knit it. This year we chose Wool and Honey, a jumper I first saw in Bendigo a long time ago. I loved it from when i first saw it, but it's garter stitch in the round, which is a hard no from me.

It also runs the seam down the back, with a visible jog. To prevent this, and also because I was knitting with hand-dyed yarn, I alternated skeins until the split for the underarms, and then knit it flat.

There are aspects of this jumper than I'm doubtful about, most of which are not Andrea Mowry's fault:

The sizing. i made the small, which is my usual size in Andrea Mowry's patterns. I spent a lot of time deciding between the small and the extra small. When I split for the sleeves, I added an extra ten stitches to each sleeve from the body stitches.
The seaming. i don't mind the act of seaming, but I really struggled to make these seams nice, and, despite redoing them, they are still not great.

Things I love include:

The sleeves which I extended into a full length puff sleeve. I didn't reduce until the end, and I love it.
The yarn, which is naturally dyed Averley Rare Breed Shetland. Averley are fast becoming one of my favourite yarn providers.
That i get to be mathcy matchy with some of my favourite people.

And here's a picture of one of my favourite people, just because at the end of this photoshoot I took this selfie and it's too cute not to post here.

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