While at VogueLive back in early November, a knitting friend and I discovered an “advent calendar” sweater project at the Mass Ave booth. The 24 15g balls of fingering weight yarn were so colorful that we couldn’t resist. I bought the project knowing that I wouldn’t really knit it for advent but instead would knit it in January. I had some really cute Christmas self striping socks yarn that I really wanted to knit up instead.
So come January I embarked on knitting the advent sweater. It’s an extremely simple stockinette tunic with raglan sleeves so no seaming!! I am very pleasantly surprised at just how much fun I’m having knitting it up. Since I didn’t pick the yarns, the colors are often a surprise. It is surprisingly to see how the colors display as they are knitted. I bought the sweater to be a fun splash of color worn over black leggings and it will definitely be that.
My friend has completed hers already. She started in December and decided to make it a shorter hip length. It is just as cute and fun as we had hoped. It looks great on her but I think I still want mine to be longer, upper thigh. So I’ll keep an eye out in the future for a fun knit like an Advent Calendar project.😁
Knitting Is So Fun 