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It’s amazing how much inspiration you can stumble across on the realms of Instagram. When I saw amazing versions of the As If Tee online, I knew had to make one!

Although I’ve been knitting for almost 2 years, I still feel like a newbie. There are still some things that intimidate me and intarsia was definitive one of those skills I wanted to check off my 2021 Bucket List.

The As If Tee provides two options: knit flat with some intarsia and knit in the round with full intarsia. What a perfect pattern to practise on!

Now, if you’ve followed my Insta, you’ll know that my tension knitting flat is all over the place- I’m a loose purler and tight knitter, so knitting in the round is my most preferred option. So I followed the instructions to a tee (pun intended) and surprised even myself!

When I bought the neon yellow/green Nobbly Bobbly yarn from The Discrete Unicorn, I had no idea what I was going to make with it. It was brighter than anything in my stash, and I bought it because I was drawn to the name: Unhappy Endings.

As a child I was sucked into the world of Violet, Klaus and Sunny Baudelaire on the pages of the A Series of Unfortunate Events, and the similar name of the yarn made it an impulse purchase that I never regretted.

In fact, it gained sentimentality with every stitch as my best friend said the colours reminded him of his favourite football team.

To tone down the intensity of the blinding luminosity of the Nobbly Bobbly, I held the yarn double with a strand of black mohair (Rowan Kid Silk Haze) – in a kind of “ode to 90s grunge meets neon vampire”, and loved the end results. I ended up working the smallest size (even being a UK 14) because I wanted a bit more negative ease. I think it fits me perfectly!

Overall, the pattern is super simple to follow and the tabulation of the intarsia portion makes it really easy for even a newbie to pursue. I originally intended to add long sleeves to this design (by incorporating the Diaphanous Raglan by Jessie Maed) after seeing a gorgeous version by WoolWalkerKnits, but I got cast-on-itis and was itching to start a new project. I plan on revisiting this pattern again though as it’s a great one-skein pattern (excluding the mohair) and I’ve got some lucky dip skeins I can already see being transformed!

Special thanks to ThisIsMissShe who made a spectacular lilac version that gave me the last little push over the As If Tee cliff!