Day 12
Mood:  cheeky
Topic: Knitting Olympics '06

 
I have been worried all along that I might run out of the rust color I've been using because I was only able to get 9 skeins and the pattern called for 12 at full length. I knew I was never going to make it full length (didn't want the sweater all the way to my thighs) but I wasn't sure I was going to be able to squeak out everything and have the length I did want (nicely resting mid-hips). So after some thought Tuesday and a call to Claudia Wednesday to see it my thoughts were in la-la land or on solid ground . .. (believe it or not I was not in left field for once) the decision was made to slip the body to another circular needle after I got it to an acceptable length before the garter edging. Once slipped I would finish up the sleeves, collar and placket then return the body to the original circulars and finish. This would allow me the freedom to finish with all the yarn I had or to the full desired length instead of the acceptable length whichever came first. So tonight a sleeve was born!!!!!! I had set aside one skein in each color for each sleeve and after completing this one I think I will have more than enough left from the sleeve yarn to work the placket and collar from one sleeve's left over and put the other sleeve left over yarn into the body length. Beauty of sleeve knitting top down is that things get faster as you get closer to the end . . . .what a novel idea!!!! All in all I am more happy with the progress to date, I was beginning to worry because even tho the body was progressing I felt it was a never ending circle and I would never see the light at the end of the tunnel. Now I can see that light and I think reaching it is very possible.
 

 
Mom is a trooper to say the least. I've told her flat out that she met the terms of the Olympic rules and was free to stop there. Knowing I was still elbow deep in yarn and knitting she felt bad she'd pulled me away from my work to help her with hers and finished before me so she's picked a 2nd project to start and finish before the closing ceremonies. A baby poncho and well she's screaming along on that one too (o: Mom gets nervous and overwhelmed when she reads ahead in her pattern . . .funny . . .that's what Claudia is always telling me to stop doing . . .well at least now we know where I got it from LOL. She picked the one she wanted to make and I went over Tuesday with the puppy crew to help her get started (while still working on mine) and she's already at the neck line ready for me to come back Thursday night to get past the neck to the back panel. I can easily see her ready to finish off the hood by Saturday evening.
 

 

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