Spector Sweater
5 knitlog entries Sep 2026 – Oct 2026
🧶 Still on the needles — no finished post yet. Here's the journey so far.
The knitting journal
From cast-on to bind-off, oldest first.
- Colour I knit a swatch to test the gradient/faded combo for my next sweater. The good news is that they goes well and has the depth I’m looking for. The bad news is that I still don’t like the first variegated …
- I started the project and finished the neck already but I’m not sure I like how it turned out because of the colour pooling. Decided to knit another version of neckband using the LBA greyish yarn. I finished midnight and …
- Finished dividing sleeves and body today, and turned inside out to start the body. It was funny because yesterday I messed up - instead of putting sleeve stitches on hold and then cast on mid-row for the body, I somehow …
- Almost to the point of getting bored 🥱. I feel the colour on the top should be deeper; the pink looks pretty on yarn but in reality it does seem too childish on an adult sweater. Nevertheless when I tried it on it looks …
- I will probably put this on hold for now. There are few things I don’t find them satisfying. The first is the colour of neckline. When I knitted the two samples and compared them, I thought this grey one looks better …