I’m less than a month away from my 40th birthday, so I decided to knit myself a sweater with my “Ever After” yarn I bought for my birthday in 2024 from Treehouse Knits (find her on Instagram here). This is one of my all-time favorite movies that I use to watch repeatedly in college while riding the city bus down to my campus. I had a knock-off “iPod” mp3 player that my dad converted a digital copy of the movie onto so I could watch it on my tiny 2 inch screen while I rode the bus for 2 hours a day, 5 days a week. Gotta love that early 2000s technology, am I right? There’s just something about the soundtrack that gets me in the feels every time I hear the main title, and I never grow tired of hearing it or watching it.
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Anyway, Ever After still remains to this day in my top 5 favorite movies, and as soon as I saw this yarn collection theme based on the movie releasing the same month as my birthday in 2024, I knew I just had to have a sweater quantity. I’m so glad I snagged these beautiful skeins, even if it took me almost 2 years to actually use them. And it seems only fitting that I enter the next decade of my life with not only a new sweater, but a new one using some very special yarn with a lot of sentimental value to me.
The variegated colorway is called Ever After, based on the original theatrical poster from the movie (aka the original DVD cover, which yes of course I still have my copy and a DVD player on which to watch it whenever I want for free. I still cling to my elder Millenial nostalgia, which has its perks). The tweed deep purple yarn is called Noble Blood, based on the scene at the end of the movie when the stepmother Rodmilla and Marguerite are in the laundry room near the purple dye pots and Rodmilla says that iconic line “I am of noble blood!”
I’ll be using Stephen West’s Garter Marler Cardigan pattern to make my sweater, with Ever After for the main color and Noble Blood for the contrasting ribbing sections. I’ll be alternating skeins as I knit to avoid any noticeable differences in the hand-dyed skeins as well as to prevent color-pooling, which I did for my swatch, and I am loving how this yarn is knitting up. I’m not sure if I’ll be able to get this project done in time for my actual birthday, but I do have a two week Spring Break coming up during that time, and there will be plenty of knitting time. My goal is to hopefully have the sweater finished by the end of March, and maybe just maybe the weather will allow for me to still get a few wears out of it this season before it gets too hot.
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