I had this brown machine knitted sweater forever and people asked me ALL the time if I knit it and my response over the past few years has been, “No, I could knit a way better sweater than this!” So, I finally did at the beginning of this year. I finished knitting this sweater in January, so I’m a bit behind in blogging, but better late than never, right? Here’s the old sweater, which is on it’s way to Goodwill…

I replaced it with what I call Bark Emerald (Ravelry link for my sweater), Emerald (Ravelry Link for pattern) from Knitty by Amy Swenson, knit in Rowan RYC Soft Tweed (Ravelry Link for yarn) in the Bark colorway, hence the name.

The sweater knit up really quickly on US10 1/2 needles! It’s one of my favorite cardigans. I wear it all the time.

I opted not to add a button closure, but rather I use a shawl pin to close the sweater and I think it looks great. I picked out a black and brown one from Purlescence for my birthday in January and I love it!

I love the shawl collar and the raglan cable details on this cardigan!

Also for my birthday in January, I picked out these adorable little sheep needles from Purlescence!! They’re US8′s and I was laughing and smiling the whole time I knit the fuzzy lamb on them!

One other thing I picked out from Purlescence for my birthday was this Fiber Trends Hedgehog pattern, which I have yet to knit up! (My parents got me all these things…)  Maybe I’ll make one for one of my nephews or my niece next year…  They’re so darn cute!

While I’m on birthday things, this post is getting really long, but I still have photos of the rest of my birthday presents from almost 9 1/2 months ago now! Teenuh knit me a beautiful dishcloth!

And Amy got me a felted dog toy knit! I still haven’t knit this one up yet either!  I don’t know how well it will last with my big chewers…

One last present, my brother got me a book, I think, and a huge bag of buttons!

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