Today is the day! My friend Veera Välimäki (@veerarain on insta) is releasing her latest design the Inner Peace Sweater, and I can finally show of my new favourite FO – I’ve literarily been wearing this every day since it came off my needles. In the summer Veera put out a call for testers, I saw the picture of Inner Peace and immediately jumped on. “THIS!!!” was my single word overly enthusiastic reply, and lo and behold minutes lates I had the pattern to test in my inbox.

Let me tell you something about myself – I am a really really really bad test knitter. My intentions are always great, but I can count on a finger or two the times I’ve been able to finish a test knit in the given time frame. I half expected for history to repeat itself, but the Inner Peace turned out to be such an immersive project I simply couldn’t put it down. All other projects were abandoned, and look at me! I’ve finished my sweater in time (yes, blocked, woven in ends and all – it’s almost a Christmas Miracle).

Inner Peace Sweater is a wonderful mid-season sweater, that suddenly seems to work for all seasons and many years to come. Veera explains about the design that Inner Peace was started as a quick little layering piece for her spring wardrobe, but then she ended up loving it more than many of her other sweaters – and wearing it all the time. It is a cropped-throw-over-absolutely-everything woolly wonder! The Inner Peace features a combination of tailored and dropped shoulder, which I particularly enjoyed, having fun working through the pattern. I’ve not done a tailored shoulder before, but Veera’s pattern writing skills are superb making it really easy to embark on something new. I am so impressed with the result! I don’t think I own another sweater that hangs so beautifully on me. On 6mm needles you will swish through this project, and if you’re not into the super-cropped look, just make it longer – easy peasy!

I chose to make my Inner Peace in Pickles Tjukk Merino Tweed. I wanted a neutral colour to go with ‘everything else’ I own, to add a bit of excitement to the process of actually knitting the sweater I opted for the tweed to provide me with some speckly fun along the way. For my next one I’m definitely choosing one of the brighter colours of Pickles Tjukk Merino (without the tweed). The pattern is graded in 9 sizes and you would need 4 (4, 5, 5, 5) (6, 6, 7, 7) hanks to complete (and maybe gain) your very own Inner Peace.