2024 Geek-A-long: Natural 20 Sweater Clue 2

Hello and welcome to Clue 2 of the Natural 20 Sweater! This week you’re going to need to make some character sheet decisions. What class do you want to playknit? Do you want to multi-class? In this week’s download you will find charts for 12 classes plus a bonus child’s play logo because I think charitable giving should be a playable character class. You can use as few or as many as you want, up to the number of chart repeats in your yoke. When it comes to D&D classes, it’s not how you’re born that matters, it’s what you do. Unless you’re a sorcerer, in which case what you do is how you were born.

Not only that, this week we have the big reveal of where those weird lumpy motifs were going: It’s Beholder Eye stalks!

If you are just joining us, make sure to go back a week to the project sheet and steek tutorial. We’re running on a different schedule than usual this year, and clues will be released every other week, with each release containing a larger portion of the pattern:

• Clue 1 – Cast On and yoke increases
• Clue 2 – Remainder of yoke
• Clue 3 – 1st half body (releasing 7/14)
• Clue 4 – 2nd half body (releasing 7/28)
• Clue 5 – Sleeves (releasing 8/11)
• Clue 6 – Collar and finishing (releasing 8/25)

Confession time: Sometimes I try things and I don’t love them, but they still show up in samples because not enjoying the process isn’t a good enough reason for me to frog something I’ve already done. These project pics reveal a big one of those for me: Jacquard floats. I wanted to love it. I wanted to do a tutorial. But it took FOREVER and I don’t feel like the end result looked better (I actually think it made my tension wonky). The back does look pretty cool though, even though I stopped doing the Jacquard floats after the eye stalks because I spent longer doing those fracking floats than I think I did on the entire rest of the sweater, and my ADHD can’t handle working that slowly. But one knitter’s slow descent into madness is another knitter’s pleasure, so here is a tutorial on the technique from someone that can still stomach doing it if you want to try it out for yourself. I know lots of people really like it, so I think it’s worth trying at some point to see if it’s your jam.

It’s super fun to be able to pick a class and see how to make it fun. Who doesn’t want to be a Barbarian smashing things or a Wizard throwing fireballs?  I love solving a problem by saying, “ I turn into a bear.” My favorite class is Bard. It gets to stand out and be useful and I’ve yet to find a problem that couldn’t be solved by a Bard using ventriloquism. Healing plus trickery is my favorite combination both in game and in life. I haven’t had the free time to look at the classes for D&D One yet. I’m excited to see what has changed and how I can use it to talk my way past a raving monster or bash my way past the city guard. 

The only class I don’t really enjoy is Bard, but that’s because it tries to do everything at once and sometimes your turn is either meaningless or completely ends an encounter.

-My husband, who is wrong.

View the Natural 20 Sweater: Clue 2 by clicking the download button below. When you download the pattern from our website instead of through Ravelry here, you will NOT receive automatic updates. You will have to come here and download the next clue every time. Please download it via Ravelry if you are able, so you have immediate access to the clues as they are released and any errata that may appear.

~Megan-Anne

“Please stop trying to use ventriloquism to solve every problem. It never actually works.” -My DM, who is wrong. 

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