Hiya peeps,
Well dang, I went and done it now, sheesh. I posted a message on the Ravelry patterns board about there not being any decent FREE patterns for young boys and young men. Mostly what I found in my exhaustive search were too cutesy or too OLD!!
So, I challenged myself and others to come up with some patterns for our young men that were trendy and something we would actually enjoy knitting, besides the monotonous drudgery of endless stockinette with stripes or a little color threw in here or there. Those are ok n all that, but I wanted to do something that was a little bit more fashion forward without them looking like a "Cosby sweater gone wild!"
Rilana of "rilana knits" has some awesome graphs for the teenage set. Those would be totally kewl in a youngmans simple sweater. I also had some ideas with incorporating superhero themes into the sweaters for the younger boys. You know themes like "spiderman" or "the wolverine" or "naruto" and other stuff like that.
Well my first project was more on the line of "can it be done" sort of thing, not to mention my son would get a little upset if it was too "out there". So to start with, I ended up doing a cabled raglan in the round from the bottom up. I will post the finished pattern as soon as I can get it written down for ya all. It would run towards the experienced beginner type. Plus, the promised video of my method for needle-less cables.
