Talking ‘Bout

Five hundred, twenty four thousand, six hundred stitches……

Ok, maybe not that many.

                              

I did do the 50,000 + stitches in November. I’m thinking, quite a bit more than 50, 000 stitches given the size I knit.

I wasn’t able to complete the sweater until the 1st week of December because the sleeves were so badly shaped. I tore them out and redid straight sleeves instead.

Then every last darning needle in the house went missing – all at the same time. So it was another week before I bought some and then completed the seaming.

I wore it to work the very next day. Soooo warm. But I found out another great reason to block sweaters, aside from the fitting thing. Damp wool does not smell that great. And it rained, rained, rained the day I wore it.

I’m pretty happy with the uniformity of the stitches – and this is the 1st time I’ve completed a neckline and picked up my own stitches. If I was a little more dedicated I would go back and work a little more ribbing along the neck – it is not quite as substantial as I would like. I guess I could still do that in the future sometime. 

(sorry all the pics without the dog turned out very blurry)

Eeeewww. Yucky. Fortunately it was pretty close to the end of the day when I had to be out in the rain – or I would have had to work in a tank top only. Not exactly that time of year.

Incidentally, I saw that play and…I hated it. I much preferred Lease. Got to the point a lot quicker.
“Come on everyone, we got quiltin’ to do!”

2007 Reads update coming very soon….