Oh, my owls!

The rumors are true. This is one of the fastest sweater knitting pattern I had ever encountered. Since I learn the 'tube-method' of making the body with circular needles instead of the traditioanl 'front-and-back', I only make sweater with this method (even the pattern doesn't). The most interesting part of this pattern is that it ask for kintting the sleeves and the body together in one big circle -- which I found a bit challenging to do with on circulr needles and

 cound't figured out how the arm-hole is supposed to be close. I used double-point needles to help, especially at the sleeves section.  And I 'beautifed' the armhole after the sweater is finished. 

The sweater turnout very pretty ,  beyond my expectation. The only thing I can do better with this project is to choose a better yarn. I use elann.com peurvian highland chulky for it -- the color is super, but the texture is rough -- and it was not spun that well. At one point of knitting, the yarn broke.  I guess we all have to go through a period of learning that cheap yarn has its limit. 

Having said that, the sweater fits so well, and it looks so cool. However, I probably would not touch this sweater if it is above 60F outside....good that the forecast say that there are still few more cool days before the heat wave arrive. 

The pattern can be downloaded for free here