Today was good. I actually feel like I accomplished a bit today. I like the feeling, and honestly I do not feel it all too often. I was able to get a bunch of little things done that had, due to neglect, grown to a much larger scale. More assortied oddities have been packed and put away, given away, or thrown away. It wore me out though and I am totally exhausted. My arms are sore, my fingers hurt, oh I can go on - but I won’t.

I was even able to squeeze in some time for finishing. I am so bad at the actual finishing of a project. I will let it sit and linger forever when all that is needed is a few ends woven in. For example:

Pattern: Hello Yarn’s Irish Hiking Scarf
Yarn: Cascade 220 color?, used approx 1 1/2 skeins.

This was a lost object, forgotten about, and now finally found. The knitting was done before Christmas, all that was needed was a blocking to call it complete. It was to be a gift for the husband, that was prior to him telling me he really did not care for scarves. I put it away and totally forgot about it. Until it was found during the organization of knitty stuff. Now up one gift for this Christmas :-)

Now for a more recent finished object:

Pattern: Airy Cardigan, Interweave Knits, Winter 2004
Yarn: 4 Skeins GGH Softkid color 055
Size: Small (chest 35 1/2)
Modifications: Did not sew close the sleeve edgings, making a little split “v” opening at the bottom. Also missed the corrections on the sleeve edging so they are slightly different than the bottom edging.

I’m really liking this sweater. I love the fit, and the itchiness factor is not at all what I had expected - it’s really not that bad. Now I just need to find a couple of tanks to fit nicely underneath it.

In the picture above the top button is wonky, it has been fixed and is now evenly spaced. I just did not have the gumption to retake a new picture. Also the lack of modeled picture is due to I did not like the way any turned out.

Posted in Projects, Done and Gone, Tops on Sep 25th, 2006