Modification Monday: Accidental Stripes

Original Pattern: A Cropped Sweater for Winter

Knitter Extraordinaire: Kat (Ravelry ID, Blog)

Mods: Modified the originally cropped sweater pattern to be hip length, and added in dramatic stripes and colour blocking at the sleeve caps. Project page with details can be found here.

What Makes This  Awesome: I love, love, love the stripes on this sweater. They are beautifully proportioned and even through the body, but the real magic is the sleeves. The blue sleeve caps give a great, graphic  move into wider stripes that decrease in width  as they move down the arm to the cuff.  Kat was very clever in changing how the stripes worked on the sleeves, as it gives the sweater a really modern effect, and with the blue sleeve caps, it keeps the stripe son the body from feeling too busy. It’s easily one of the best striped sweaters I’ve seen!