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Grey Ghost

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Grey Ghost is a sweatshirt-of-a-sweater kind of pullover. Knit up in a sweater quantity of   ElsaWool's incredible Cormo yarn that I had been saving in stash forever, it's a bottom up raglan - with a twist! I played with this until the shaping fell somewhere between Elizabeth Zimmerman's Classic Raglan and her Hurry Up Last Minute Sweater (which many of you will think of as a Carbeth). I went this way as I always loved the more pronounced shaping of the Last Minute Sweater, but I never felt that the bringing the sweater to a full point at center bust was flattering on me.    Instead, the sweater is graded so the shaping leaves a bit of the front intact, and it's amazing how those few inches make all the difference.  I also had a little fun and designed each size so the seams hit the pattern columns and line up perfectly under the collar at both front and back. Grey Ghost   (rav link)  features a ...