The Saga of the Sweater

Sometime around last May, I bought some Reynold's Gyspy special value yarn from Knitpicks, too good of a deal to pass up. In June, I started making a sweater for Abigail, designed with help from Style Your Own Kid's Knits. It's a v-neck with seed stitch hem on the sleeves and bottom of the sweater. I only have an Addi Turbo in the right size needle to get the correct guage, and I quickly developed an aversion to knitting this sweater. A slick needle and a slick cotton yarn made slow going, especially while I was purling, or everything went flying off the needles. I put the sweater down.

In October, I picked it back up and forced myself to finish knitting the pieces. Great. I started putting it together. Three needle bind of at the shoulders, no problem. Stitching on the first sleeve, okay. Seaming the sleeving, yup. Seaming up the body - wait. The pieces were over an inch different in length. Hmmm. I double checked and the front and back were the same length, so I'd attached the sleeves (drop shoulder sleeves) down to different point. Ugh. The thought of ripping out the seaming I'd done and removing the sleeve made me put that sweater down again.

Yesterday, after staring at the thing for months again, I picked it back up. RIP went the side seam, RIP went the sleeve seam, RIP went the stitches holding the sleeve to the body. I reattched the sleeve correctly this time, and I've redone all of the seaming. The sweater is now awaiting the second sleeve and seaming, then a neckling put on. The color will look really good on Abigail. I can't beleive that I've let it sit all of these months.