Macaw Sweater Finished

Sewed on the buttons and finished up this sweater yesterday.  The yarn is Red Heart Super Saver in the color Macaw.  The sweater took 5 236-yd skeins with a little left over.  As usual, this yarn works very well in the knitting machine (LK 150) with the bands knit by hand.

The sweater has 3/4-length sleeves and waist shaping on the sides.  The bands are 1x1 rib and the buttonhole band is stabilized on the edge with backwards crochet.

Next in line is the royal blue jacket which is a pattern I have made three times before.  I've made a pink one, a navy one, and a green one.  It's a nice change to do garter borders and they give the cardigan a more boxy, jacket look. Several have a garter/eyelet border which I really like.  Here's the green one:

There are plans to make a coral one of these too and the borders are already knitted for that one.