Wow, I am really pleased with how fast this sweater is going (for a reminder, I used the sweater calculator from knittingfool.com to create a drop-sleeve gansey pattern and am knitting with two strands of worsted, one black and one tan, creating a nice random marled look).
I figured out how to do the semi-set-in (or whatever they are called) sleeves thanks to the great instrux posted here. I have the entire back knitted and the front knitted up to the point where I have to split for the neck opening.
I am chuckling at this lovely marled look, because I am the only sibling in my family who can cook without being a slave to a recipe, and there have been times when I have made something like "throw whatever is in the fridge that looks good into the pot stew" types of dishes only to be asked by one or the other of my sisters for the recipe, which, of course, I cannot give, so I look at the random color spots on this sweater and chuckle, wondering whether, if one of them knitted the way they cooked, they would ask for the chart to get that lovely random pattern. ROTFL.
I am hoping to get this thing done before the very cold weather is past, but since it seems like spring is already dawning on Northern California, I might not.
After this, I want to knit a similar sweater only with worsted cotton to handle warmer weather. Not sure if I will do double-stranded or single-stranded. Will have to do a swatch to be sure.