Bandit Fiber Arts

I decided to make myself a sweater after having success with hats and cowls.  I was inspired by Bad Sheep Yarn’s Edgar Allen Poe set to make a sweater with ravens.  Lo and behold, I already had some Raven yarn in my stash so it was a natural follow up to use it for the ravens.

I crunched numbers earlier in the year but I wasn’t 100% confident in them and I didn’t want to waste time and yarn on something that wouldn’t work.  So I invested in a couple of sweater construction books and one of them, Ann Budd’s “The Knitter’s Handy Book of Top-Down Sweaters” really saved my bacon.  Thanks to the swatch gauge I already had, all the calculations and plotting were already done for me.