Elle Stretch Jumper

This jumper has been a long time in the making, and is the first pattern that I've customised by adding detail rather than simply re-sizing. Okay, its not a massive customisation, and the reason that it took so long was because I kept getting bored and knitting something else, but that just makes the fact that I've FINISHED it even more pleasing.

The pattern is Elle stretch 6800 now discontinued along with the yarn. I first knit the jumper in yellow and cream a couple of years ago. I found it a little boring to knit, but loved the jumper so much that I bought spare yarn from ebay before it disapeared. Then, last autumn I bought a gorgeous jumper in Jane Norman with cabling up the front and decided that this was what my stretch jumper needed! 

I ummed and aahed a bit about just how much cabling to include, but in the end decided to keep it simple. I replaced the centre ribs with a cable pattern from a stitch sampler and did some rough calculations on whether there would still be sufficient stretch to fit.  I calculated there would be, but was fully prepared to finish it, discover it was too tight afterall and then have to rip that section out and re-knit with a re-design. Luckily my maths held!