been on my “to make” list forever!!! might need to move it up the queue (and also gain the courage to try making sweaters)
Sweaters aren’t that bad. When I originally learned to knit, it was to make a sweater. I made a rectangle and then that sweater. (The one from Viking Patterns with the tabs on the bottom.)
It’s mostly just confidence + being willing to spend 10x as long making one thing.
Looking through the pattern for this sucker, it’s not too bad. There are short rows, and it’s worked bottom up (ew), but it’s in the round and a lot of it is just stockinette, and the body doesn’t even have shaping on the sides. That may be painfully boring for me, but I don’t think it will be too hard. In particular, it’s the construction where you join the body and arms and work in the round, which means you aren’t doing fiddly bullshit to sew the arms into the body. You just use the stitches already on the needle and go up from there.
The cable patterns are written out in words in addition to being charted. TBH I like charts better, but I’d say this pattern is trying to be fairly accessible. (Not like the damn Cassidy that I’m currently knitting, which is like “do as on other side” meaning that you have to know a k2tog becomes a ssk and so on.) It’s not dead easy, but it’s not harder than a lot of hat patterns, just larger.
I’m not a fan of bottom up, and I prefer doing the hard parts first so that the boring parts are the only thing between me and a finished sweater. I find that more motivating. But in terms of courage, this order might be good.