I think I’ve set some kind of Land Speed Record with this sweater. I’ve never finished anything this fast in all my life! I steam blocked the pieces last night and let them dry in the fan. I ususally wet block (since I’m lazy), but between the sweater being made of wool and the 10,000% humidity it would Never Ever Dry. This morning I was able to sew it all together.

I opted to seam this sweater with a different yarn (the Lana D’oro Great Gran got me for the Huntington Thing). I figured that if I seamed with the Gatsby yarn I would end up with insanely bulky seams. The shoulders are still chunky, but I think they will flatten out if I hit them with the iron. The shoulders in the pattern picture look pretty chunky, so I am not sure if that could have been avoided.

Project finished! You know what that means:

The cookie is my reward for finishing my project. See my reflection?

That’s the Lana D’oro for the Huntington Thing. I am a little bit worried about making this. I’ve never done colorwork before. And it’s in the round. I don’t know if that makes it harder or not, but it certainly could.

The cable (and, thus the cable modem) went out this morning before I could post this. While it was out several things changed.

I made a two-color swatch for the Huntington Thing (Betty helped). It’s bad. I mean really bad. See for yourself. And while I know some of the things I did wrong (some I did wrong on purpose to save time) I think I need to practice a little more before I start on this project. I will pick up some of my leftover yarn from home this Sunday and practice.

In the meantime, I’ve started one of the Michael vests.

This is in another yummy yarn from Artful Yarns called “Jazz” the colorway is “Ella”. There is a strand each of purple, grey, golden brown and charcoal. I’m making the On The Go Vest from a back issue of Knitter’s.

I occurs to me that I need to update my Stash page. I seem to be speeding right through it. I should start looking around for more projects. . .