Dinosaur Colorwork Sweater-Part 2

 Earlier in the week I shared the first bits of my dinosaur colorwork sweater.  This is the most ambitious knitting project I've ever done.  The only other one that comes close was my cabled lace COVID shawl.  But I do feel like I've gotten better at stranded colorwork over the course of the sweater!

Blue and Spooky like to "help" with the knitting when I sit down on the couch.  Sadly their help pretty much prevents any knitting progress, so I either have to put away the kintting and snuggle the pups or go find a different chair.

By the time I was finished with the stegosauruses and triceratops I showed earlier in the week, the sweater was almot but not quite the right length.  But I was 100% in love with the T-rex skulls (another three color pattern) and possibly my favorite of the bunch was the meteors flying to the earth with the volcanos.  Sorry dinosaurs.

I was feeling pretty done with colorwork by the time I got to the sleeves, so they are mostly plain/striped but I did feel like I wanted to include one row of these little dinos hatching out of green eggs.  Unfortunately, the sleeve part of the pattern is the only part I really don't like the fit of.  It was way too big around and didn't decrease enough for my taste.  I tried boiling just the sleeves to make them shrink and it might have helped a little but not that much.

Here it is after I finied the knitting with the stitches picked up for the steek, and the bottom pic after actually doing the steek.  Pretty scary but it worked fine.  I enclosed the two sides of the steek by knittin a garder edge on the front and back side and enclosing the steek edges inside (third picture).  That matched up aesthetically with what I did on the collar and bottom/cuff edges and made a nice finish inside too.

Here it is all blocked out.  I love it so much except the dumb wide sleeves.

And here I am wearing it.  You can tell it's quite long, but I really wanted to get my patterns in.  And it really does fit nice across the bust and shoulders.  It has one button at the top with a crocheted loop closure to help it stay up. 

There are a few pretty loose floats inside but all in all for a first big colorwork project I think it turned out good!  I love the rainbow and blue and dark purple, but it really isn't the best to see all the intricate colorwork.  I think there's a reason fair isle sweaters tend to be super high contrast.  Oh well!  Future projects! Even in fingering weight yarn it's quite dense and warm so after having a friend take this pictures, it got folded away until the weather cools off considerably.