A knitting update: the big tweedy cabled jacket project. Luckily for the sweater, I was recuperating from eye surgery last month so was able to get back to it and accomplish huge chunks of knitting; or who knows if when I would have picked it up again.
It's now in the pre-final stages, in that the pieces are all knit up. All that remains is to seam the shoulders, pick up stitches and knit the collar, pick up more stitches and knit both front button bands, weave in all ends, sew the whole thing together, add buttons and wet block it. I'm really close! I can feel it! But at least I no longer have endless yards of stockinette to slog through.
I know, I know, it's all about the process of knitting. However, to paraphrase a boating saying: the best days of knitting a sweater are the day you start it and the day you finish it.
Here are all the pieces that turn into a sweater.You can't see the beautiful color, but you get the idea.
Soon I hope to be posting a photo of it with me wearing. All my knitting gift recipients had better hope so too, as I can't get to Christmas knitting until this is snuggled on my neck, vs. hanging around it.
[Like an albatross, get it?? Oh, never mind.]
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