Weekly pattern

Before we get into the pattern "review", I have a question about this series. I've started this series with knitting patterns, but what about sewing patterns? There are so many around, online, often from indie designers, would you like me pick a some here and there and show them to you? Since I have not made them yet, these are NOT full reviews, nor do I think, that just because I don't like something they are not good in themselves. With that...

This week's pattern also comes from Ravelry's hot right now list. 

It is the Nordic Bloom West by Caitlin Hunter.

picture is from Ravelry: © Riikka Kantinkoski / Laine Publishing

I just realized, that I already picked on another of her designs, but let me just say...

There are people who adore Caitlin Hunter's designs, and there are those who cannot stand her, and I am somewhere in between, because she does have patterns I would love to knit, and there are some that are an absolute no-no for me. The Halibut sweater was one of those and the Nordic Bloom west is another one that I would not knit. 

For one I feel that this design is just yet another skin of the well deservedly popular alpine bloom series.

The drawing is similar (maybe even the very same diagram), placed on a different base sweater, a waistcoat this time. 

Also, the base piece, the waistcoat does not have anything redeeming, as it is rather shapeless, a stocky square and I am stocky enough myself, without a waistcoat emphasizing the fact, thank you very much, it is short, it has drop shoulder, any of those elements would make me want to avoid this piece, but all together is a definite no. 

It might work for someone... who is at least three decade younger than me, or 30 kilograms lighter, or 15 centimeter taller, or all of the above.