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.