The On Repeat Pullover by Yarnspirations Design Studio is designed to be knitted using their colour changing yarns. It’s the yarn changing colour that does most of the work for the colour changing effect you see on the model.
Preferring to make my own path (and given that I had a batch of yarns in multiple colours) I figured I’d have a go at faking it. This is the result. All things considered I think it turned out OK. It’s either awesomely horrific or awesomely vintage, so I’m keeping the AWESOME and throwing out the qualifiers.
My take on the “On Repeat Pullover”
The Yarn
First off I DID NOT use the recommended yarn. I didn’t even use the recommended weight. Instead I used 8 x 100g balls of Paintbox simply DK. The pattern calls for Aran weight so I simply put two strands of DK together. I used the needle size recommended and somehow managed to match their gauge first time. The combination of multiple threads for the fair isle pattern combined with the two strands of DK masquerading as one strand of Aran really made this sweater thick and resistive to drafts. It also made it a physically heavier than I expected.
Measurements
My bust measurements placed me at the smaller side of the listed Medium size range, so I knitted it in the Medium size. On reflection I could have gone down to the Small size. Despite knitting it to gauge it did come out a baggier than I would have liked.
Back Neck
The pattern itself is pretty straightforward. You may have noticed that the pattern doesn’t include a photo of the back. It’s not uncommon but in this case was a bit cheeky. It didn’t make it obvious that the short rows at the back come out looking a bit weird, since you are not knitting the grid pattern while knitting those up. Take a look at the photo at the bottom to get an idea of what I mean.
Back Shaping
Another thing to be wary of is the body increments. The increases are evenly positioned on each increment round, which means it gets wider at the front and back at the same time. As a result I found the finished item could handle my front curves, but appeared to be designed to fit an equivalent amount of boobage on my back!! It’s a bit lumpier than I would like back there (the jumper, not me). In the photos below it had been blocked and worn about 8 times, so some of the back lumps were starting to even out but I suspect they will never go away completely.
