Hyozan (氷山)

Remember this sweater? Well, as I was packing my sweaters into their new sweater box, I realized that I simply didn't love this sweater very much.  So, I ripped it out and reused my yarn to make the Iceberg.  So my sweater went from this:

To this:

in the matter of an evening: 2 smaller cakes of yarn from the arms, 1 gigantic cake of yarn from the body and odd little bits of yarn I had used for the hem and collar. And just in case you're think I'm exaggerating about that gigantic cake of yarn, here is it for scale:

It's like the arms are regular store bought cakes and the body is a Costco (& then some!) sized cake!😳🤭🤣 Jumbo isn't descriptive enough as it's larger than jumbo sized!🙂🐘

I should have more than enough yarn (or possibly more!) than I need for my sweater project. 🙂👍🤞

Here's how my Hyozan adventure went:

Upon referring to the size chart, I knew I'd probably want to make an XS collar and sleeve while possiblly making S body.  So, I followed the instructions and casted on for the collar and shoulders. Knitting the colar was fine (although I didn't feel like my "ribbing" looked like the picture).  Then, it was time to do the back shoulder: I followedd the instructions and crocheted the cast on stitches and proceeded to follow the instructions.  Next up: the front shoulders.  The instructions said to cut the yarn for the back shoulders but, I kept it connected and simply used another (smaller) ball of yarn for the front shoulders to pick up stitches from the original crocheted cast on.  It was a little fiddly but, I think I did a pretty good job so it seemed seamless.  Then, it was time to join both sides for the shoulder shaping.  That was also a little fiddly and after a few rows, it seemed like I was on the right track:

I finally made it to splitting out the sleeves and body and here how it was looking:

Upon a closer inspection, my "V" started looking a little wonky.  So, I had set it aside for a while (plus I was putting in crazy hours at work so, I had little to no brain power left in what little evenings I did have or weekends to work on this) hoping that it would look better once I had more brain power to reassess how it really looked.  But, I kept looking at it and there was no denying that it was "off" on the other side of the "V".  So, I ripped everything out and ... 

Started working on another sweater project (although that didn't go well either😭😔🤦🤷).

I think I'm going to put a pause on this project for the time being.