Fast Finish

After a bit of a funk because of the mistake, I bounced back on this project. More Tour de France viewing and all of a sudden I was binding off for shoulders. Most of the ends were worked in on the ride to Paris. What a tour!

So, if anyone wishes to leave a comment, let me know if this looks like an oddball project. 

I also knit and not watch F1 racing with my husband. The race this weekend in the rain was also a lot of fun. There have been too many boring parades led by Mercedes this season.

This project puts me over 10K yards of stash yarn worked for the year. Perhaps a bit of a lame milestone, but meaningful to this blog and my closet.

So, what next? I have three more sweaters and the substantial bits of the worsted stash will be declared done. I will end with some oddballs that will probably be used for felting and swatching and what not.

I need to rework the wristlet for the TKGA re-submission, so I should get on that. I'm just about done with the rework and have probably learned more doing that than the first time through the project.

Oh oh oh....
I was looking at my blog statistics and I'm almost to 7000 views. That's another lame milestone for a 16 year old blog, but whatever.

Slow Going

Well, it's been a few weeks. Normally, I should be well past the armholes of my current project by now, but I made a mistake and had to pull back a lot of knitting. How much? About three Tour de France stages worth.

I'm almost up to where I was, but not quite. Just started the last color band before separating for the armhole. Still, I should be finished by the end of the month, not that I have a deadline or anything.

I also have been spending some time working on the re-submissions for my TKGA Level 2. In my haste to get that package out the door, I really dorked up a lot of parts.

Oddballs

So, what is an oddball project? Does this one qualify? Did the last three qualify?

This one is easy. I have enough of the light blue for about a half of an adult sweater. I collected the other colors and chose a graphic that while not stripey is essentially stripes.

The previous grey required a few more choices. I did not have enough of any of the colors to make a whole sweater. I did not quite have enough background grey for the sweater and the edgings. I've learned that just that bit is 70-80 grams. Thus, the cuff, neck and waist edges are yarns other than the body yarns selected so that there is enough of the main color to work the body sections.

The brown and read sweater was the victim of Hurricane Harvey. I was messing with the skeins and some of them were drowned in the flood. I probably could have made a full length sweater if I had chosen a more balanced graphic. My intention was to flip the background colors, but I did not like how that looked. Rather than frog and redesign, I forged ahead and then cropped the body.