My own knit is the Mod Monday today!

Yarn: Tanis Fiber Arts Orange Label in a one of a kind colourway, Green Bliss.

Mods:  Knitted it in a solid colour, and added embroidered details at the cuffs. the pattern has options for an icord neckline, cuff, and hem or ribbing – I chose the icord. See my project on Ravelry here. 

I had a sweater’s worth of this very special colourway in my stash for a while, and when I saw Tanis’s City Limits Sweater, I suddenly remembered this beautiful yarn, and knew it was just right. I had to rip back at the beginning- I knit the yoke, divided for the sleeves, and then when I tried it on it was coming out way too big. So I ripped it back, and went down a needle size. I ripped back to just where the german shorts finished up, because I find they take ALL my focus and I wasn’t excited to knit them again. They look great, though – invisible!

I went with the icord for the hem, cuffs, and neckline and I love how it looks. It creates a slight blouson effect, which I really like- it’s a casual look that I think works really well. To make sure I could still be comfortable around the hips, I added about an extra inch of icord at the cast off, to give myself a teensy bit of extra stretch. And I think it worked out great.

 I also did super simple embroidery stripes into the garter stitch at the cuffs, and it is just how I wanted it to look! It did quite a bit of time, I used leftover fingering weight yarn from these mini stockings, and did each strand individually, wove in the ends…. it was a LOT of ends! But totally worth it, right? Look at those happy rainbow cuffs! It was SO easy to do this, and I think would look amazing on a lot of different sweaters- I think this would look amazing with stripes from the neckline to the sleeves as well, I just didn’t have enough of the rainbow colours to do that!

When that cold weather hits in the fall, I’ll be ready to have this little number in heavy rotation.