A couple of months ago, I jumped on the bandwagon for Metamorphic, a then new sweater design by Andrea Mowry. It’s an exceedingly simple design; the star of the show was the yarn. Two yarns by Spincycle Yarns — Metamorphic (hence the name) and Dyed in the Wool — are alternated every other row to create a colorful blended effect a little more subtle than if Dyed in the Wool were used alone.
I wanted a dark, subdued look so I chose Metamorphic in Marl #6 and Dyed in the Wool in the color way Absolute Zero.
As I said, the sweater pattern is simplicity itself: ribbed neck (2 x 2 ribbing) with slipped stitches going down the center front, back, and sleeves. (The ribbing is done in the Metamorphic yarn alone.) I modified the pattern so that the slipped stitches flowed out of the ribbing. At the 4 center points (front, back, and each sleeve) of the neck ribbing, I put a single knit stitch flanked on each side by two purl stitches. It was easy to figure out, and didn’t require major changes in the overall number of stitches to cast on. I incorporated the few extra stitches into the yoke increases.
My only other real modification was to lengthen the sweater. Many of Andrea’s designed are just a bit too cropped for me. I purchased an extra skein of the Metamorphic yarn to be on the safe side and was glad I did — I needed it for the second sleeve cuff. If I hadn’t lengthened the sweater, I would have been fine.
It took me a while to knit this because I kept being interrupted by other sweaters. I reserved it primarily for TV knitting etc. Sadly, I finished it just as it’s getting a bit warm for sweater weather. But I’m in Colorado — so who knows? I may get to wear it sooner than I expected.
