This Site Is Annoying

I have written this post once already, only to receive an error message after painstakingly uploading all of these pics (which takes about 2 minutes per pic). Anyhoo, this is my sweater! I have to sew the arms and weave in all of the ends but it's done! If I were to do it again with a nicer quality yarn, I would add a few inches to the length of the arms and the torso...but I'm pretty happy with everything else. The yarn is really bulky so I think this will be really warm, perhaps too warm but we'll see.


I went to the Woolcott Inventory sale today, along with many others, and got yarn for my next project....














And a gift for a friend of M's.....

Sweater Update...Short and Sweet

No time...running out the door for a gift exchange...but here it is.

Clearly I'm one arm short, and then the next step is to work up from the yolk to make a turtleneck et c'est tout!

Knit Pics

M's sweater

This looks more blue grey in real life










This is my sweater so far. This picture is much closer to the real color

This pic shows the cabel detail much better but it's blurry because I had to sacrifice the flash for the detail

Pay It Forward

So I've dispensed my knitting knowledge at work...I taught two people on Friday, just the basics for now. Casting on and the knit stitch. Both declared they were addicted before the end of the day, although one drove herself nuts over the weekend because she decided she wanted to start over and then completely forgot how to cast on and spent the rest of the weekend trying to use internet videos to reteach herself but to no avail.

Now that school is wrapping up, I've made some progress on both sweaters. I also finished one of the Herringbone mittens that S and I have been working (well hers are legwarmers now but whatever). I wish the body of the mitten were longer....but I'm not planning on redoing it by any means.

I've almost used two full skeins on M's sweater and I'm on the third skein on my won sweater. I'm working down the body on mine, the next step will be the ribbing and cables around the bottom band of the sweater. Surprisingly my stitch count is what it should be! Everytime I count just to make sure I'm still on task, I feel like I have to hold my breath and then I realized that I haven't majorly screwed up and so far so good. I would love to have this ready for going home for Christmas but that might be a lofty expectation....

Too Painful To Capture on Film

Well, if my blistered right index finger is any indication how long I worked on my sweater this weekend, you will understand the pain I'm now going through when I realized that one of the decreases for the shoulder seem was going to be on my back! Oh, it was a horrendous realization, one that I chose not to depict on this site.

The pattern I'm using is not that intuitive and they tend to leave out some steps, so I anticipated they meant one thing (moving the markers) when clearly they did not. So rather than be unhappy with a putrid sweater, I thought it would be best to unravel to the cabled yolk and try again. As M keeps pointing out, 'It's a learning experience.'

Tonight after my class, I'm going to continue unraveling and restart....Oh the horror!