I don’t get it.
A bunch of my Ravelry friends have queued this sweater out of the latest Knitty. My not getting it probably has a lot to do with me, not with the sweater: I am absolutely the wrong body type to wear it (strike 1), I am solidly in the anti-bobble camp (strike 2 – also see above re: “wrong body type”), and detatchable sleeves give me 80’s flashbacks of the worst kind (strike 3 – it’s the detatchable sleeves that really confuse me. What can I say? I’m way too preppy and square for detatchable sleeves). I will be very interested to see iterations of this design in the wild, especially in the case of inevitable knitter modifications.
I would, however, like to shout a positively ENORMOUS “congratulations!” to my friend Robynn, whose “Twist and Shout” is lovely (and lovely on her in the photos).