This is my favorite sweater. Its is also my most heavily favorited Ravelry project (Deep Sea Lady). Despite my repeated assertion that my best color is dull green, this deep saturated blue functions as a neutral in my wardrobe. I can thrown it on over about 90% of my outfits and it looks especially good with a pair of dark denim jeans and a knit shirt. It is also the perfect weight. It is warm enough to be warn as a outer layer in spring and fall, and light enough to be worn inside during the winter.
The yarn is my own handspun from Lisa Souza’s handpainted BFL roving in Deep Sea and it is really this beautiful color that I think makes this project. It was the first time I spun enough wool for a sweater. I tore the bumps into strips and mixed them before weighing them into even bobbin-sized portions . I plyed the singles into 2-ply DK weight. Using the Blue Moon Fiber Arts parlance for a handpainted yarn, I would call this a “water color wave”. It does have some color definition and hence some striping, but it is definitely not high contrast.
Here it is 2.5 years later:
Overall, I think it has held up very well considered the rather heavy wearing and washing it has received. While I don’t wash it every time I wear it, I do wash it every second or third wearing. I live a dirty life. It has faded, and I think it may have shrunk a bit (its hard to tell as I have also gained weight and block it very casually). It has pilled like the devil and for that I blame my spinning. With 3 years more spinning experience under my belt, I can see the my yarn should have been more tightly plied. Additionally, if I had to do it over again, I would have 3-plied this. Not only should that have given it more durability, but it would have given it more stitch definition and taken it from a “water color wave” all the way into a deep rich semi-solid.
Don’t think that I regret any of the time on this. It is still my favorite sweater.
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