Uh oh

September 20th, 2006 at 6:34 pm (Finished Items, Works in progress)

I feel like a huge crowd of guests has shown up at my door and I’m still sitting around in my pajamas at 6PM. Well, I *am* still sitting around in my pajamas, but that’s beside the point.

So if you’ve come over from Stephanie’s blog looking for actual recent knitting content, I’ll apologize. There’s not been a lot of notable knitting here lately, or at least nothing really interesting enough to blog about.

I did finish the knitting on a cardigan for Grace, at least:

Cardigan sweater pattern from Knitter’s Handy Book, Plymouth Galway color 605

This took me about 10-12 days to knit, with a couple start-overs of the back. I have yet to seam it (duh), and it’ll need a neckband and buttonbands as well. And buttons. I loathe sewing on buttons. But I should be able to finish it tonight or tomorrow, depending on how readily the kids go to bed tonight.

After I finished knitting Grace’s sweater last night, I cast on for a sweater for me. Yes, I’m actually going to take the plunge and knit something for myself other than socks! I’m using Peace Fleece in Sakhalin Salmon, and I love it so far. The yarn doesn’t have a ton of give to it and it’s a little “rustic”, but it’s pretty nice to work with anyhow. Maybe it’s the whole philosophy of Peace Fleece that’s making me so happy, who knows.

Not yet to the amorphous red-orange blob stage

I’ve got the ribbing plus one round of the body done so far. 2816 stitches down, about 928374100 to go. But at least I’m knitting it in the round, all in one piece – that way there’ll be no seams to sew at the end. But sadly, I’m knitting it in the round, all in one piece, which means that I’ll be carrying around an awful lot of sweater with me if I choose to take this out of the house. At least I’ll have plenty of opportunity to wear it this winter. Brr.

6 Comments

  1. Guinifer said,

    September 20, 2006 at 9:50 pm

    Love the colors in both, even if it IS an amorphous red-orange blob….

  2. Jessica Johnson said,

    September 21, 2006 at 8:34 am

    Hi there! I’m the mama with the little wooly-pants’d kid! My blog is http://ewelala.blogspot.com/ Weren’t the pants cute?! They’re from my own pattern, but, good eye!!!!

    Good to “see” you again!

    Jessica

  3. Kari said,

    September 21, 2006 at 4:24 pm

    I linked over from yarn harlot. The cardigan looks like it is going to turn out quite nicely.

  4. Catherine said,

    September 21, 2006 at 9:04 pm

    I love knitting sweaters in the round all at once…I hate seams! I didn’t discover how much I hated sewing seams until AFTER I finished knitting a patchwork baby blanket for my son though. Ugh. I finished the last seam and got it all blocked just two hours before leaving for the hospital to give birth though. I hate to think how long it would have taken had he come on time!!

    Love the color of the sweater for yourself. It’s good to knit for oneself every now and then. Enjoy!!

  5. Vicki said,

    September 22, 2006 at 9:53 am

    I just got an order of Peace Fleece a couple of weeks ago and I’m anxious to start! I have to finish that stupid shrug, first, of course. ; ) Really.

  6. Chris said,

    September 26, 2006 at 10:18 am

    I LOVE that color for you – it’s going to look great on you!