End of the World Hooded Cardigan

Have you ever watched a show like The Walking Dead or The 100, or a movie like Delicatessen and thought "wow, they make the end of the world look beautiful"? I love apocalypse fiction and it has long informed my aesthetic. I got to thinking, if this really were survival after society, we'd be making do with whatever we could; frogging any sweater that no longer worked to save the yarn, knitting from our stash. I wanted to design a sweater that would incorporate a wide variety of yarns while still working well without looking slap-dash. So here it is: It's knit in panels, so that if your yarn is thicker or thinner in one section, the other sections will even that out. It has a collar that turns into a hood so that it's flexible and warm for any night traveling. The collar is stretchy to wrap around any children you might be carrying. I used dark colors to stick with the theme, but use whatever you have in your stash, the brighter and louder the better. The pattern includes instructions