KNITSTER

I’m fortunate that my son actually doesn’t mind wearing cardigan like sweaters, or really, I should say, sweater hoodies. For years before she moved up here permanently, my mother in law would buy these acrylic, densely machine knit hoodie sweaters that had all these Andean patterns on them when she was in Ecuador. Drew loved those sweaters, and people would always comment about them, how interesting and unique looking they were. Well, they were certainly unique to anything you would find up here. So, now that Drew had outgrown them all, and Abuela hasn’t been back to Ecuador in a few years, Drew requested that I make a sweater. It started out at the Hot Flaming Sweater, and turned out to be the Sweater from Hell that I frogged back. As I posted last, it ended up being what Drew originally asked for quite a while ago– he wanted me to make him a red sweater.

Since I really didn’t take any pictures of just the sweater by itself (I could, but I’m too lazy and busy these days with other things), why not show the sweater on a very cute male model instead?

New Red Sweater on a Handsome Boy

Drew loves the sweater. He wears it every day to school now, instead of some regular ol’ jacket. The hood, while it curls inward from the lack of better finishing techniques, is still big and roomy and he can hide under there. It’s a little big on him, but not so big that he’s swimming in it. Rather, just big enough that if he should have a growth spurt over the summer, it’ll still fit him in the fall.

I’m just glad he likes it so much. Makes it worth all the time and effort.

Posted on May 2nd, 2008 by Dani
Filed under: Finished Objects, Photos, Projects