FINSIHED! My Beginner Raglan Lite

This sweater is super fun because it is the LITE version of the first sweater I ever knit. 😍😍😍

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The Beginner Raglan Lite by Knitatude is exactly what it sounds like- a beginner raglan sweater in a lighter weight yarn. This sweater is knit top down with eyelet raglan increases (so beginners don’t have to worry about any M1 nonsense) in garter stitch. If you can knit, purl and yarn over you got this!

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The yarn I used has been in my stash for ages. It is Premier Everyday Worsted in Spa, a 100% acrylic yarn at 203 yards/100 gram skein. The yarn is incredibly soft and surprisingly not at all pilly! I haven’t decided if this will be a full washer and dryer knit, but I guess there really is no reason for it not to be. I don’t have a lot of experience knitting with acrylic yarn so I didn’t actually block this at all πŸ˜‚

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This piece is a little out of the norm for me since it is, as you can see, designed to have negative ease. I knit the size S, with a finished measurement of 31.5” across the bust. This gives me about 1.5 inches negative. Combined with the long length of this sweater (15 inches!) I’m still working out how this will fit in my wardrobe. To be entirely honest, I can see myself frogging back to closer to 10 inches and refinishing the hem to get a more wearable piece for me.

I thought it would be fun to throw a pic of the first sweater I knit, the Bulky version of the Beginner Lite in here for you too!

xo-LJ

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