Mosaic Magic

 

 My mosaic sweater is finished at last! Phew! Why did I ever think it would be easy to design a sweater using a mosaic pattern, with an empire-waisted style to boot? I was ambitious, wasn’t I? This little project took me from September of ’09 until now to finish.

Overall, I’m happy with the way it turned out. I used Mosaic #20: “Cable” from Barbara Walker’s Mosaic Book to create the pattern for the sleeves and empire waist design. And what could be more scrumptious than Rowan’s 4-ply soft for the yarn? Of course, that yarn is so fine, that knitting the sweater on size 3 needles seemed to take forever! But I was determined to knit something inspired by the Panetone Winter Color report illustration:

And I happened to have just the right black and red in super fine yarn in my stash! After all the grinding away at the fine knitting, I do feel the sweater was faithful to my Panetone color inspiration:

 I just wish the fit were a bit more flattering. It is very much a busty silhouette that is created by the empire waist! I don’t think I’ll be wearing this sweater to work any time soon, but for a date night with my husband, it is probably just right.