Did Not Happen

I did not finish my sweater. No surprise there. I will keep on working on it to finish, hopefully by the middle of April. I now have a sleeve complete and almost a half of the second sleeve.

Where did the time go???

Not Looking Good

Unless all I do for the remaining days of March is knit on my sweater, it does not look like it will get finished. That would be very disappointing. I always look forward to a new sweater in March. Unfortunately, all I have to show for this month is a back that I already showed you, six and a half inches of a front, most of one sleeve (at the sleeve cap shaping) and no second sleeve.
So totally not good. And uncharacteristic since it's a relatively simple pattern and I've never had so many issues with a Drops pattern before.

Spring sweater madness is sounding pretty good, but I haven't given up quite yet.
Knit on.

A Little Distracted

I may have gotten ever so slightly distracted.

I  finished the back of my sweater as seen in the previous post, quite pleased with myself for getting it done so quickly without working on anything else. I was soooo dedicated, ticking away at a good clip. I had 5 inches of both sleeves done and then ......it happened.

I became the proud owner of MANY MANY pounds of unwashed fleece. Did I say MANY?....I mean roughly oh, 15-20lb..

see...distracted.


I now have about half of it washed and some of it even carded

How do you gals feel about "Spring" sweater madness? You know, we did get started a little late.

Lost momentum

I don't know about the two of you, but I have lost a bit of energy. It started with the plane flight back home, spent two days fighting off a migraine followed by the Blahs.

I have blocked one shawl and just completed another Hitchhiker - so I suppose I should get back to the second sleeve rather than have just created yet another WIP/UFO....

Tina's Progress

Tina's progress is real. She finished the back of her sweater tonight at knit night and started the fronts. This woman rocks! Did she already tell you that she's using hand spun???

Progress? Not So Much

This yarn barf used to be a half of a sleeve, a full ball's worth plus a bit. I switched to working on the sleeve because I needed to make up some time since the front was going so slowly (when I was actually working on, which wasn't that much to be perfectly honest). I was having issues with the sleeve increases. The pattern lack direction as to whether or not the increases should be done in pattern, only that they should be carried out on either side of the k2. The problem is that the sleeves are knit in the round and how the heck are you supposed to make that look right with the Bleeping increases not looking completely out of place? I ripped and tried it several different ways within the first few inches of the sleeve, never quite happy. Then I decided to just stay in stocking stitch for the underarm as I increased. That didn't look quite right either but I kept going anyway. Then Tina came over and I asked her opinion. We hummed and hawed and didn't really come up with a satisfactory fix.
Tonight at knit night, we looked at it again, I ripped back to where the increases started, thinking I'd work the pattern into the centre of the increases. To end this tale of woe, let me say that didn't work (again) and feeling overly frustrated I ripped the remainder of the sleeve and now I have a yarn cake, ready to start over, this time on straight needles. I should have knit the bleeping sleeves flat in the first place. :(

One each Peplum

The peplum is done (do you know how long it takes to knit the first few rows of 376 stitches complete with all those cables? - ARGH!)

and the first sleeve is done to 17"

Now, I have to decide if I am going to knit the second sleeve to the same point before starting the front/back extensions and the complicated portions .....