Knitting the airplane and the sea made me think of pattern making in a different way than I normally do. Patterns are normally beautiful through the repetition, but this airplane had to stand on its own, and that made it a very different design process.

I am not especially fascinated by old airplanes flying though the night, but I am fascinated by Harry’s fascination. While knitting this sweater I had to use the intarsia technique. The intarsia technique is not normally one I enjoy to knit with, but for this project it made sense. Maybe it was because I had to use the technique to create the Catalina airplane flying through the night.

The body of the sweater is made with Lazy ribbing (the black part that is difficult to see…)– a stitch I will return to!

What do you do when you want to knit your husband a sweater and you would like him to wear it when it is finished? … well one way is to give him influence over the design. Result a red line that is made with the intarsia technique. I do not like to knit with this technique at all, because I feel that the knitting looses some of its flow, but I liked the design and hoped that it would make my husband use the sweater. It worked!

The cat in the picture – is our lovely cat Petersen… taking pictures of the cat is one way of making him pose for a picture