Slow Jumper

This is another ageing FO- one which I actually finished knitting in March 2009!!! I fell out with it, and only got around to taking pictures in May 2010. More embarrassingly, I then decided I liked it after all, and have worn it quite a lot in the last year- but only got around to blocking it last week. (These are the May 2010, pre blocking photos...)

I used Elizabeth Zimmermann's Icelandic yoke sweater pattern for the yoke, but I took the measurements and the shaping of the body and the sleeves from the tatty old jumper I was replacing (which was not yoked), so it didn't quite work out as intended. That's what I get for disobeying the Zimmermann!

It doesn't quite behave itself over the bust and shoulders, or in the upper arms, but I've decided I don't mind. Blocking did help too, once I eventually got around to it...
It is the only garment I have ever made with a view to wardrobe planning. I made it to replace a black polo neck jumper I wore for work with either a tan, black and white checked skirt, or a bright orange one. The original jumper eventually became too bobbly and tatty to count as respectable work wear, so I planned this jumper to go with the two skirts (hence the colours in the yoke).

As it happens, I since got the yellow skirt shown here at a clothes swap, and I now also wear the jumper with a short tan corduroy skirt. And with some tweed trousers, also from the same clothes swap, so it is a bit of a winter workhorse!

It is ravelled here, and there are a few more images on Flickr too.