Current projects are growing and I can’t seem to get anything totally completed. My man asked me to make him a “camping sweater” so I shuffled through my patterns and found a great Patons pattern
from the Our Guys pattern book. So I was a good little girl and did my gauge swatch then cast right on! As I finished the turned hem and started the body of the back I realized that even though my gauge matched theirs, the back seemed awfully wide. I measured & low & behold it was 28″ instead of 22″!! Wowza!! RIP baby, RIP! I reconfigured the cast on amounts & started over. It is now about 6″ long and that is my main goal for the next 2 weeks before we go camping.
I am still working on the chevron tank, the back is complete and the front is about half an inch from the armpits. Not bad, not bad. I could finish it in one solid afternoon I think.
Sadie’s bedspread received my attention for one section of purple and that is about all last week. It’s nice mindless knitting and last week didn’t seem to have much time for that. I needed to feel accomplishment in my knitting. Hence, the start of a new project & work on more complicated patterns.
I made my son, Tyler, a hooded sweater about a year ago and he immediately grew out of it. Since it was a roll hem, all stockinette stitch, pattern I decided that I could pick up stitches along the bottom of the body & sleeves to make up for the size difference. Of course it’s been in a bin for the last 8 months gathering dust. He came to me begging for a new sweater on Thursday so I thought I would oblige in the quickest way possible. I grabbed his sweater, picked up those stitches, knit a 3×2 rib 3″ long in no time & voila! A new sweater! The really funny thing is that he really thought it was a new sweater that fast! I am a heroine for sure!
Sadie was also begging for a knit item but hers was a lot simpler, a headband out of microspun. So last night while George, Tracy and I watched The Life Aquatic (slow, dry humor, could have been much funnier, but I liked it anyway) I crocheted her a simple headband.
Trevor has been asking for a Thomas the tank engine sweater & there is no way in hell I am knitting something so ostentatious for a 4 year old that will rip & stain it within 5 minutes of owning it. Plus the fact that once I got it on him I would never get it off of him! So no, I will not go there I don’t care how much he begs me. Maybe a hat, maybe….
That just about wraps it up, I need to go get some more done on the “camping sweater”.
Tata!