I finally finished Mr. Math’s new sweater. This is a pullover, a top-down raglan with a crew neck – here’s a link for the free pattern. I used the same pattern for his Elrond Sweater, which he wears all the time.

These sweaters are kind of fun to knit because there’s not really a pattern to follow. You calculate the cast-on at the neck – based on your gauge and measurements desired for the finished sweater – then start knitting. You increase at the raglan seams every second row, and keep knitting around until it’s time to split the yoke into the arms and the body. You decide this point by trying the sweater on. Then you knit the body until the sweater is long enough, ditto on the sleeves, and you’re done. If you knit in stockinette, in the round, you just knit the whole way down. It’s not very challenging once you have it going, which makes it good television knitting.

Mr. Math wanted a basic sweater to wear around the house and he prefers wool. So, he chose a shade of Patons Classic Wool – his pick was Dark Grey Marl. Marl means that one ply of the yarn is one colour and one ply is another. This yarn has one charcoal ply and one off-white ply. Knitted up, the effect is more flicky than tweedy. I put some red stripes in PCW on the cuffs and neck.

And here it is.

The photo is mediocre, both because I’m a mediocre photographer and because marl yarn doesn’t photograph well. I only had a chance to take one shot – then the sweater was on him and he was heading out to get things done. I think this one is going to get some serious mileage!