Sweater Surgery

I finished Drew's blue/green zebra sweater back in late February, but I wasn't totally happy with it.  I thought the seed stitched collar and cuffs looked a little feminine, as well as the long length.  Well, I tried it on him this past weekend, and it fits a lot better!  He has grown into the length so it won't need much shortening.  The sleeve length looks good, and I think it will get a little wider in the chest once I block it.  After some encouragement from a nice knitter at my LYS, I decided to try making some changes to it.  I did some research on ravelry, and learned that it wouldn't be too hard to insert a lifeline, cut a stitch, and rip out the collar and cuffs.  Cutting that stitch was a little scary but I didn't unravel the whole sweater--it worked out just fine!

New collar, knit in 2x2 rib

New cuff, knit in 2x2 rib

Next I'm going to block the sweater to see how much wider and longer it gets, and then I will rip out the bottom and shorten it a little, and make a 2 x 2 rib border on the bottom instead of seed stitch.  I'm looking forward to Drew wearing his sweater this fall!!  (And SO looking forward to sweater weather--I'm sick of 100 degree weather!)