Yes – it’s another aran jumper! I love knitting these things and just can’t stop I’m afraid, if I see aran wool I have to buy it. This wool was bought specifically to knit an aran for my hubby. I knit him at least one warm wooly every winter as he cycles to work every day and I like to make sure he’s nice and warm. He’s about 6′4″ and has very long arms so buying jumpers to fit is always a problem.

The pattern on this one was quite simple and the jumper shape was also simple – no shaped armholes – the back and front were knit with straight edges and then just simple shaping for the shoulders and neck.

The wool itself was what I fell in love with, it’s quite a lightweight aran with (I think) about 10% manmade fiber but it was the colour that drew me – it’s a denim blue with lovely changes of dark and light which looks different as it moves and as the light falls on it.

I picked only two aran stitches – a simple moss stitch which symbolises abundance and growth and a cross over chevron. The chevron is a variation of cable filled in with moss stitch.

He wears this continually and it’s the reason I had to knit an aran for his father…and having done that my m-i-l then complained she didn’t have one so I had to knit her one last Christmas!