Well, another one!  I really like this pattern, as do many knitters who enjoy the practical wisdom of Elizabeth Zimmermann’s designs.  For this one, I wanted to make it look like a watermelon (no, those aren’t Christmas colors)…so my idea was to make the body of the sweater and sleeves the dark green, and us the lighter green, ecru and red as the inside of the “rind” and the watermelon – only – you know, the way I plan often isn’t actually the way things work…so of course I came up short on the dark green yarn.  As a result, this little sweater hibernated in the depths of my yarn bag for probably a year.  Finally, one day recently, I decided I wanted my stitch markers back (this project had most of them on it, yes indeed, I need to buy more stitch markers), and so I went looking for which WIP (work in progress) had them – and I found the watermelon sweater innocently sporting them, as well as my size 3 Profi bamboo circular needles.  And so the decision was made to just go ahead and finish the sweater with whatever striping I ended up with – and that’s why it’s striped instead of the original plan.  I still like it.

I used Knit Picks Shine sport yarn, one skein each of these colors (well – only parts of a skein of the red and ecru).  The sweater has a nice “heft” to it because Shine is cotton and microfiber mixed – so it has a little bit of a shine – um – DOH! – and it’s heavier weight than just cotton would be.  I want to make another one some day, but use my original idea and make the bottom all the darker green, with maybe just the very bottom edge and perhaps cuffs using the ecru-to-red change.

Project link on Ravelry.com.