Ruthless Knitting Archive

I’ve been knitting away on my Middlebury sweater, which you may recall temporarily stumped me a while back with its tendency to scrunch up on the needles. I needed to figure out whether it would hold a lengthwise blocking or whether I had to make it longer to compensate for its desire to be scrunched up, which would have meant ripping out the piece I was knitting and starting over with fewer stitches. Well, I finished and blocked one side of the front, and it looks like it will hold the length just fine when it’s draped on my body. Here’s a picture that shows what it looks like when you hold it up in the air:

It would have been a better picture if I had turned the knitting around, as what you’re actually looking at here is the back. Whoops.

And here’s my progress so far — one side of the front (again shown backwards) and about two-thirds of the length to the armholes on the back.

I’m still enjoying the project, though it occasionally occurs to me that I have a long way to go, and I’m not sure how long my love will hold out. Let’s just hope nothing better comes along.

Meanwhile, the other day, I was skimming back through the Yarn Harlot’s Knitting Rules and I came across a statement about how she always keeps her swatches and maybe some day she’ll sew them up into a blanket. (I’m paraphrasing; I don’t remember what she actually wrote.) It crossed my mind that maybe my swatches could be a blanket, so I laid them all out on the bed.

It was a lot of fun to look at all of my swatches again, but . . .

. . . I think they’d make one ugly blanket.