Ruthless Knitting Archive

See how I tried to make that exciting? I fear that it won’t work. I spent nine days knitting a sleeve, and now the sleeve is done, and it’s about as exciting as you would expect. It came out exactly the size I intended for it to come out. I am fond of it. That’s about all there is to say about that.

Here’s my pretty sleeve:

And here’s the sleeve with the cuff flipped up, so you can see the contrast color on the hem (which is called “chokecherry heather”):

The color in both pictures is fairly accurate, which is to say that sometimes the yarn looks brown, and sometimes it looks gray. It is both at once, which pleases me.

Next up: another sleeve. I know! It would be more interesting if I were going to knit, say, the back next, but I might need to order more yarn, and to figure out whether I do, I need to know exactly how much the sleeves are going to consume before I move on to the back.

Because I’m knitting the herringbone sweater on tiny metal needles, I have to make sure that I don’t spend too much time in any given day working on it. I grip the needles pretty hard when I knit, and with metal ones, this can make my right wrist hurt if I’m not careful. Thus, I have another project cooking on the side: I’ve started a Christmas stocking for my niece, Lucie. This is the same Christmas stocking that I knit last year for David –

– only it says “Lucie” on top. It’s knit flat from the top down, and I’ve managed to make it to the row just before the Santa heads begin.

I’m making this stocking for sentimental reasons. Almost everyone in my family has the same Christmas stocking, all of them knit by my grandma when we were younger — one for Mom, one for Dad, one for each of my brothers, one for me, a pair for my aunt and uncle, one for each of my cousins, and so on. I want all the newer additions to the family to have matching stockings of their own, so after I finish Lucie’s, I’m planning to do one for her mother, my sister-in-law Bethany, and then another for my other sister-in-law, Angelyn. I’m hoping that the three stockings will take me just about as long as the sweater, so that I’ll always have something to work on when my wrists need a break, and by the time Christmas rolls around, I’ll have a new sweater to wear and three gifts to distribute. Is that a plan or what?

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