Baked bean blue hooded pullover

Forever ago, I bought a good amount of fluffy, vintage mohair yarn from Brookette that I wanted to use for a fluffy, baggy, cuddly pullover. It took about half a year before I could find a yarn that would go well with the mohair though. I wanted to knit double stranded, one fluffy and one more normal so I would get a kind of "Skappel sweater" look to it. I ended up getting a bunch of Alpaca from Drops on sale in a beautiful light petrol/turquoise colour. Now, I'm not really a blue person, I'm not too fond of wearing that colour, but I decided to make the best of it. It is also impossible to get the right shade pictured, I've tried so many times.

I started working up this thing without any vision and pattern, I decided to do whatever as long as the yarn would reach. About half way through knitting the body, I noticed that the alpaca yarn had a colour that resembled the color of Heinz baked bean can. I quickly did a search on eBay and bought a lot 50, bright orange buttons that resembeled the baked beans themself. Together this would make for a crazy colour combination, a salute to awesome beans and a reference to my favorite Yogscast Minecraft series; Moon Quest where they make their base in a giant Heinz can.

Halfway through the frist sleeve, while giggling and fangirling along with Pickleweasel360 (PB & J 4LYFE!) , she told me that I should do a hood on it and put the bean buttons on the hood as if they were spilling out, so I did. I also made drawstrings on it that reaches my knees! The whole pullover ended up being one crazy, all around reference heavy and happy go lucky without a care in the world hoodie! I love it! The buttons were placed randomly all over because you can never have enough randomly placed, bright coloured buttons in life. No limits, no rules, just a heck lot of fun!

7mm needles, Bernat Mohairlaine and Drops Alpaca

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