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My Tegna sweater: Finished!

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                                          Can I just say how much I love this sweater?!        TEGNA by Caitlin Hunter at  Boyland Knitworks  is such a fun project! It is knit bottom up, starting with the lovely lace at the hem. After that bit of concentration, it's on to the races with stockinette to the finish. When knitting sweaters, knitting up a preliminary gauge swatch is key, and after working that out I was able to get the most perfect fit of any sweater I have knit to date. The only modification I made was to add length to the body: the Tegna pattern is written as a more cropped sweater, but I wanted one that was more tunic length. That lace.......sigh...... Isn't this color so beautiful? It's  Studio June  heavy fingering weight yarn  in the colorway Eight Bells.  I used the helical knitting technique to alternate skein...