Fair Isle Jumper Finished

I started this back in January and was (as it turns out over-optimistically) hoping to have it finished for my son's birthday in May.  Sadly May came and went and I was still knitting.  I completed the body fairly quickly but the sleeves seem to take me forever!  Fair to say though that if I had been only knitting I might have managed to finish it on time but I always have lots of things going on concurrently.

Anyway, it's all knitted now and I'm just tying the gazillion ends at the moment and then I will give it a nice wash and block before finally giving it to my son.

Whalsay Jumper Design by Hazel Tindall / Ann Feitelson

The jumper looks kinda "brownish" from a distance

but it's made of many colours including

orange, purple and plum.

That's what I love about Fair Isles,

the beautiful play of all the different colours that make a design.

All those colours does mean that at the end, you have to deal with many many wool ends from all the colour changes.  However, Shetland wool has wonderful "grippy" qualities preventing it from unravelling easily and making possible also to just knot and pull off the ends.

Here's what my seam looks like with the knotted and pulled wool ends.

With washing and wearing, the ends will gradually felt into the body of the jumper.

So that's it for the Whalsay Jumper.

I'm already wondering what my next Fair Isle is going to be...

Does anybody reading this like to knit Fair Isle?

Best wishes,

Frivole