Well, hoodie, actually.  This project ended up being the source of many lessons.  I had never crocheted an article of clothing straight from my brain without the benefit of a pattern.  I bought a few balls of Caron Simply Soft in Pagoda and Ocean and wanted to make something using both colours, since they were both so sublime. I don’t know what possessed me to choose a hoodie rather than a simple sweater – a moment of insanity, perhaps.  And I kept waffling about how to actually create this.  Zipper?  Buttons?  Pullover?  What kind of pockets?  I was still pondering how to make parts of it while I was crocheting it.

I started out winging it, but had to back-up and start from scratch after some pretty spectacular mis-calculations.  Then I decided to treat it like any other garment, draw up a pattern and simply crochet those shapes.  I couldn’t decide how to do the sleeves – my fourth try ended up being pretty much what I wanted.  (Note to self:  unless you want straight sleeves, crochet them horizontally rather than length-wise.)  Now that I look back on it, I probably should have documented everything in the off-chance I wanted to create a pattern for this, but so much of this project was spent deciding what I wanted to do while I was doing it and unraveling and re-doing.  At any rate, here’s the result.

I can’t recall how many balls of yarn I used – three ocean and two pagoda, if memory serves.  And an H/5mm hook.  This picture doesn’t quite convey the splendiferousness of the colours.  They really are sublime.