Let's Do the Whole Garde-Tricot Thing

Irish Moss is done again. It looks exactly the same except it's longer.

In fact, it's probably a bit too long but that's not going to change. I do have another sweater that's about to get shorter.

I knit this back in the eighties. It's the only surviving project I have from before I got married and had kids.  It's huge, in the way that so many things from the eighties were and it's brightly colored in the way that so many things from the eighties were.  The mock turtleneck was knit separately and sewn on; God knows why. Back then, it would not have occurred to me to modify a pattern but it's hard to imagine that this is what the pattern called for. I've hung onto it for all these years because I really like it but I never wear it because it's so big. I was inspired by TECHknitting's post on reworking an old sweater, and have decided to rework the neck and make this shorter. I should have enough yarn to knit a proper turtleneck after I make it shorter but if that doesn't work out, I'll just give it a crewneck.