I finally finished my sweater -- that is, one totally-knit-but-never-sewn-together pair of baby blue jeans, two ponchos, two pairs of legwarmers, and three crocheted string bags (about the only thing I can crochet) later. It's that gansey style made with a double strand of worsted weight, one black and one tan. Fits perfectly
*blissful sigh*. All I need to do is weave the ends in, but at least I can put it back in my room and not have to leave it in the living room for it to stare reproachfully at me. I ought to go back and see how long it has taken me to get to this point. At least it will be ready for cold weather.
Next items on knitting agenda:
- Take the sweater down to the post office after business hours (so nobody stares at me for weighing something I am not going to mail) and find out how much yarn it took to make it so I can write it in my notes.
- Weigh the balls I made from tying together yard-long pieces of scrap yarn in an orderly fashion and see if there is any hope of making another sweater from them -- this time a jacket, not a pullover. Otherwise I have to make a poncho. I have three graduated shades of beige/tan/brown to double-strand it with to make a sort of striped background on the scrap-yarn balls.
- Get up the courage to try a pair of socks (worsted weight first) now that I know the legwarmers I made fit me really well and can just add the foot part of the sock onto them.
Of course, these may need to take a back seat to the sewing agenda for a little bit should my job interview pan out. But it feels WONDERFUL to have finished that sweater. I thought I would never be able to do it.