w.i.p. : westward.

I’ve swatched for this pattern, blocked my swatch, measured, and measured again. The Westward Sweater by Tayler Harris is beautiful—and it knits up quickly. But I’ve found that I’m petite. Real petite. I knew I was of short stature, but doing a dolman style sleeve has really tested my ability to get the oversized but not swimming on me fit I need.

Despite redoing the sleeves once and it feeling really great pre-block, the sleeves just ballooned after washing—way more than my swatch because of the weight of the whole thing. So I’ll need to rip back about two or so inches on these and redo the ribbing. That will at least require very little knitting.

And while I want this to have a cropped look, because I knit it on the oversized end, it needs a bit more length so it doesn’t billow as much in the back. Maybe one more section of each of the blocks.

It’s worth putting in the effort to get the right fit because I adore this sweater so much. My only concern is when I wore this, I noticed it felt pretty itchy and my tolerance for itch is quite high. Yarn is what the pattern called for— Woolfolk Tage. It must be the mohair content.

Here is my project on ravelry. Stay tuned for my next surgery on this one.