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Nearing the finish line
Nov. 19th, 2010 10:41 pmWatson is so close to being done! I had some slight hope he would be finished last weekend, just sliding in at the one-month mark and qualifying as a personal NaKniSweMo. Alas, it was not meant to be. Near the end of the second sleeve, I bothered to count stitches and realized that I had increased an entire ribbing section too many. (For those who haven't lived with this thing for weeks on end, that's 16 sts total, or 32 rounds of increases.) I'm down to only one real workout a week, so my upper arms do not need that much room. Not that they did this time last year either, but you see my point.
Back went Sleeve 2, more than two repeats. Out came the bind-off of Sleeve 1 and back more than 3 repeats. Unladylike language may have been uttered during this process. I'm a bit proud that I did not cry. I wasn't on a real deadline, at least. I have worked my way back up Sleeve 2, bound it off, and gone back to Sleeve 1, which is now lacking slightly over two pattern repeats.
So of course, being so close to finished with a truly massive project, I have developed a case of start-itis. I am dying (dying, I say!) to cast on the Blueberry Waffle Socks. I thought having a podcast to knit to might help me chug along on the last of the sleeve, so I downloaded all the episodes of Stringchronicity that I wasn't caught up on and went to town. If you listen to Stringchronicity at all, you know that its previous incarnation was SockTart. Yes, our beloved Maire spends a good bit of her time talking about socks. For some reason, this does not help repress my sock urge. Way to go, me.
I am not allowed to start a new project until I have finished this sweater and several things I have planned for a craft fair in a couple weeks. Mostly I will be selling dishcloths, since I had some made up and stashed away, a hat or two, and I am throwing together a few crocheted "infinity" scarves with some stash I have honestly been meaning to unload anyway and wasn't sure how. It's super-bulky machine washable stuff (read: 80% acrylic) so it ticks the boxes for the current fashion trend of chunky knits and for low-maintenance, which is always a plus with gifts. Next, I get to figure out pricing on all these things that strikes a balance between being fair to me for the work and being in a price range that people will actually go for. But not before I sleep, because somehow it got really late.
Back went Sleeve 2, more than two repeats. Out came the bind-off of Sleeve 1 and back more than 3 repeats. Unladylike language may have been uttered during this process. I'm a bit proud that I did not cry. I wasn't on a real deadline, at least. I have worked my way back up Sleeve 2, bound it off, and gone back to Sleeve 1, which is now lacking slightly over two pattern repeats.
So of course, being so close to finished with a truly massive project, I have developed a case of start-itis. I am dying (dying, I say!) to cast on the Blueberry Waffle Socks. I thought having a podcast to knit to might help me chug along on the last of the sleeve, so I downloaded all the episodes of Stringchronicity that I wasn't caught up on and went to town. If you listen to Stringchronicity at all, you know that its previous incarnation was SockTart. Yes, our beloved Maire spends a good bit of her time talking about socks. For some reason, this does not help repress my sock urge. Way to go, me.
I am not allowed to start a new project until I have finished this sweater and several things I have planned for a craft fair in a couple weeks. Mostly I will be selling dishcloths, since I had some made up and stashed away, a hat or two, and I am throwing together a few crocheted "infinity" scarves with some stash I have honestly been meaning to unload anyway and wasn't sure how. It's super-bulky machine washable stuff (read: 80% acrylic) so it ticks the boxes for the current fashion trend of chunky knits and for low-maintenance, which is always a plus with gifts. Next, I get to figure out pricing on all these things that strikes a balance between being fair to me for the work and being in a price range that people will actually go for. But not before I sleep, because somehow it got really late.
