My latest design, the Candy Hearts Sweater. I started this piece back in November and had originally planned on it being a Christmas sweater. But I forgot how busy the weeks before Christmas get and didn’t get the time to even finish half of it! After things settled down a bit, I got to it.
This sweater is a pretty simple knit. I like to keep my designs easy, so even beginner knitters can attempt them. I typically avoid any shaping on the body panels because I love the look of the dropped shoulder so much! I live for slouchy, cozy tops.
I was going to do the full sweater in pink, but changed my mind when I was going through my yarn and saw some leftover speckled meriwool. It added such a perfect contrast to the sweater! I also decided to add a little to the wrists just for something extra. 
In all honesty, I made a little mistake and didn’t discover it until I went to seaming the sweater. I realized one body panel was wider than the other. This turned out to my advantage! It gave such a cute roll to the neckline in front! And for how that mistake came to happen, I’d lost my original page with the cast on amount. So I’d tried counting the rows and obviously mis counted. But I LOVE how it looks! 
I then finished it off with a little bit of duplicate stitch on the front to create “hearts”. And there, it turned into my perfect Valentines Day sweater!
If you’d like to purchase the pattern for the Candy Hearts Sweater, click here.
❤️Bethany
I launched this pattern yesterday, the same day Starbucks released their holiday drink line. Totally unplanned, but totally worked out for me! I love the free reusable cup I got with my drink! 
Totally random, but McDonald’s is running a 40th anniversary happy meal toy surprise from yesterday through the 11th (what’s with yesterday being a launch day?!) . I’d seen they would have those cute mini beanie babies they had when we were kids, or tomagotchies! My kids were so excited! So I got them happy meals yesterday, and surprise surprise, nothing good. No beanie babies, no tamagotchis. Some little plastic garbage toys. Always!😂 
Back to this sweater. I knit this up last year, exactly about this time! I had wanted to knit a Christmas sweater with these colors for awhile and finally got a little time to do it. I love pink with red and green. It’s so festive and not too over the top. I feel it gives it a more subtle and pretty feel. 
It’s knit in two basic stitches, garter and stockinette, with a little 1×1 ribbing on the waist and sleeves. Garter adds so much texture and the stockinette makes the perfect basic template for adding detail to. The Christmas tree! 
This sweater is a suitable knit for beginners or more advanced knitters. I like to keep my patterns simple enough that all levels can knit them. When I first started knitting, I’d find patterns saying beginner that definitely were not. The knitting language was so hard to understand, especially when you had no idea what was what! So, here’s to keeping it simple yet cute. It’s possible.❤️ 
happy love co 