As promised, some knitting! This is a hooded sweater I’ve just finished for my youngest - the cheeky monkey in question.

I knew exactly what I wanted to knit but after exhaustive searching online and through all my pattern books I couldn’t find it. Now, I’ve knit hundreds of sweaters over the years and I’ve often tweaked or adapted patterns so - why couldn’t I design something myself?

I found some bright DK yarn (Sirdar Salsa in orange and yellow) in my stash, worked up a few tension squares to decide on needle size and work out how many stitches I needed then I cast on….. basically I just started knitting and made up the parts I wanted as I went.

I’m pretty happy with the results - as is my cheeky monkey. The neck shaping probably needs a little tweaking, and I think I picked up a few too many stitches around the hood but as my first design I’m quite proud.

If you want it the pattern can be found under my free pattern pages and it’s called Cheeky Monkey (link over there in the side bar). If you do decide to knit it I would appreciate feedback as I’ve never written a pattern for someone else to follow so I don’t know if it makes sense.

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