'I wore it to coffee with a friend (pre-social distancing) and she didn’t comment on it, which I took to mean that my very first knitted sweater fit in nicely with the other non-handmade, store-bought sweaters I usually wear'
Me, in the cropped, chunky Audrey sweater I knit myself. Photo: Bruce Doré Whether it was the big, chunky sweaters that dominated Fashion Week, or Chris Evans in that Knives Out sweater, earlier this year I declared that my 2020 resolution would be to knit my own sweater. While I began knitting way back in the early aughts, I would still consider myself a casual, entry-level knitter, only completing a couple baby hats or simple scarves here and there.
Once I decided the Audrey kit was the one for me, all I had to do was select what size sweater I needed and the yarn color . My kit arrived a couple business days later, with no extra shipping costs, though I should note that its price met Wool And The Gang’s $80 free shipping minimum; otherwise, shipping is about $7.
Perhaps the greatest compliment I can give my handmade sweater is the fact that it doesn’t look handmade. It just looks like a perfectly normal, oversized sweater, not unlike the square-cut sweaters I’ve picked up from Everlane, or this sweater I’d been eyeing from Acne. I wore it to coffee with a friend and she didn’t comment on it, which I took to mean that my very first knitted sweater fit in nicely with the other non-handmade, store-bought sweaters I usually wear.
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