Our Axiom KAL has come to its end! Almost everyone in the office completed their sweater, and each one is unique. Everyone modified the wonderful Axiom Sweater pattern by Claire Slade to suite their personal knitting preferences and wardrobes. Each sweater highlights the versatility of the pattern in creative hands.

Regan modified his Axiom Sweater by adding a contrast color. He used corrugated ribbing on the bottom edge, and the contrasting cable panel was done with intarsia. Although he knit the body flat as written, he worked his sleeves in the round.

Stacey’s modifications are quite subtle. Her lovely sweater looks like she made no changes, but she knit both the sleeves and the body in the round. She kept a few seams to keep her project portable, choosing to seam on her sleeves and at her shoulders.

Carlene knit her sweater flat in pieces as the pattern was written, but customized the body length to turn it into a tunic! She also added cables running down each sleeve that match the smaller cable motifs on the front.

Andi loves a cropped, fitted sweater, so she added waist shaping, made the ribbing deeper, and shortened the body. She also knit her Axiom seamlessly, and it fits into her wardrobe perfectly.

Alena maintained the overall look of the pattern but knit her pullover seamlessly. Was this the secret to how she was the first to finish the KAL? Perhaps! She also modified the neckline by placing stitches on hold instead of binding off so that her cables flowed into the neckline rib to match the bottom rib.

Jen wears cardigans more than pullovers and immediately thought Axiom‘s mirrored cables were asking to become a cardigan. She converted her sweater to be seamless, with the exception of the shoulder seam.

Have you knit your own Axiom? Did you personalize it, too?