LLF Pullover
{Long Lost Friend}
Sometime in my late teens I purchased a striped sweater, which then became my favourite garment for the next two decades.
It was a classic crewneck pullover with set-in sleeves that went with nearly everything I owned and fitted me so comfortably I practically lived in it. The sweater survived several cross-continental moves, two career-changes, a marriage, a divorce, a re- marriage, and countless other life dramas and traumas, remaining my constant companion through it all. One morning several years ago I looked for my striped sweater and realised it was missing. To this day I still cannot find it, and mourn it in a way that feels excessive for a mere garment. But I know there is a symbolism in this loss; that what I truly miss are the events and people of which the sweater reminded me.
The LLF is not so much an attempt to recreate an old sweater, as an ode to its memory. It is about comfort, endurance, simplicity, and starting over. You can knit this design as a classic two-colour striped pullover. Or, if you would like to commemorate something or someone from your past, consider knitting one randomly placed stripe in a separate colour. Only you will know who or what this stripe represents.
{Long Lost Friend}
Sometime in my late teens I purchased a striped sweater, which then became my favourite garment for the next two decades.
It was a classic crewneck pullover with set-in sleeves that went with nearly everything I owned and fitted me so comfortably I practically lived in it. The sweater survived several cross-continental moves, two career-changes, a marriage, a divorce, a re- marriage, and countless other life dramas and traumas, remaining my constant companion through it all. One morning several years ago I looked for my striped sweater and realised it was missing. To this day I still cannot find it, and mourn it in a way that feels excessive for a mere garment. But I know there is a symbolism in this loss; that what I truly miss are the events and people of which the sweater reminded me.
The LLF is not so much an attempt to recreate an old sweater, as an ode to its memory. It is about comfort, endurance, simplicity, and starting over. You can knit this design as a classic two-colour striped pullover. Or, if you would like to commemorate something or someone from your past, consider knitting one randomly placed stripe in a separate colour. Only you will know who or what this stripe represents.
{Long Lost Friend}
Sometime in my late teens I purchased a striped sweater, which then became my favourite garment for the next two decades.
It was a classic crewneck pullover with set-in sleeves that went with nearly everything I owned and fitted me so comfortably I practically lived in it. The sweater survived several cross-continental moves, two career-changes, a marriage, a divorce, a re- marriage, and countless other life dramas and traumas, remaining my constant companion through it all. One morning several years ago I looked for my striped sweater and realised it was missing. To this day I still cannot find it, and mourn it in a way that feels excessive for a mere garment. But I know there is a symbolism in this loss; that what I truly miss are the events and people of which the sweater reminded me.
The LLF is not so much an attempt to recreate an old sweater, as an ode to its memory. It is about comfort, endurance, simplicity, and starting over. You can knit this design as a classic two-colour striped pullover. Or, if you would like to commemorate something or someone from your past, consider knitting one randomly placed stripe in a separate colour. Only you will know who or what this stripe represents.