Homestretch in the Great Baby Sweater Race
I think it’s impossible to make scrunchy 4×4 rib look decent pre-blocking and seaming. This stuff wants blocking desperately. I probably should have pinned it out…but you can use your imagination for now, yes? When it’s a finished sweater (hopefully tonight or tomorrow) I’ll put it on a doll or something so you can see the ribbing properly filled out.
Oh yeah, and the colors are better in person. Okay. Enough excuses. What you have before you is the back and two fronts, plus sweet little 10-inch pink zipper. Here is the sweater in progress, begun Monday night and due to be a gift Sunday morning:
Today I need to knit the collar and sleeves. Then seam it all, sew in the zipper and, well, baby sweater. There ya go.
This needs to happen quickly because:
a) Chay’s first birthday party is on Sunday and I very much want to have this ready for her
b) I’m on deadline, as usual, and need to get back to work
c) I’m about to start some secret knitting. Yes, there’s a cool story to it. No, I can’t tell you. Not yet. Secret, I told ya.
d) The novel. I have another 100+ pages due to be turned in to my novel workshop in two weeks. Still 30 pages away from that mark. Regardless of how I’m feeling about the project, the demands of the MFA roll on.
Anyway, I’m feeling much better today. Thanks for the assorted kindly comments. I’ve doubted before. I’ll doubt again. What I didn’t tell you was what had happened to set the doubt in motion. I know, I made it out to sound like it was just one of those angst things that pops up out of the blue. There was a source for this one. It was unfortunate. Pages were shared with an unsafe person. Ah well. Like I said, fine today. Totally fine.
Now if you’ll excuse me, I have a baby sweater to knit.
PS: Because I don’t have enough to do already, there’s a decent chance that if I finish the sweater today I’ll make her a pumpkin hat tomorrow. How can I go to a Halloween birthday party and not give the child a pumpkin hat?!
pages shared with an unsafe person? i don’t like the sound of that! i do, however, like the sound of the pumpkin hat. do those come in big sizes?
Posted by: rebecca
oh a pumpkin hat would be great! but i’m sure they are going to stoked to have that handknit cardi. great colors for it.
Posted by: froggy
Sweater is turning out great and I’m sure it will be done in time. you can do it! Go Cari, go Cari!
(I’m glad you’re feeling better about the other stuff)
Posted by: jackie
Unsafe person. Excellent descriptiveness.
Posted by: claudia
Glad you’re feeling better, the blah’s suck! Your partly finished baby sweater is cute, I like the colors even if I’m not seeing them right. A pumpkin hat sounds so cute, you are a busy girl!
Posted by: Vicki
Fooey on that unsafe person.
Aren’t pumpkin hats mandatory for Halloween birthdays? Get crackin’.
Posted by: Iris
That little baby sweater is adorable. Knowing that you created that should make any lingering doubt go away!
Posted by: Becky
I’m glad you overpowered those doubts. Your novel rocks.
Sweater and pumpkin hat? And work deadline? Go, Cari!
Posted by: alison
pages shared with an unsafe person? i don’t like the sound of that! i do, however, like the sound of the pumpkin hat. do those come in big sizes?
Posted by: rebecca
oh a pumpkin hat would be great! but i’m sure they are going to stoked to have that handknit cardi. great colors for it.
Posted by: froggy
Sweater is turning out great and I’m sure it will be done in time. you can do it! Go Cari, go Cari!
(I’m glad you’re feeling better about the other stuff)
Posted by: jackie
Unsafe person. Excellent descriptiveness.
Posted by: claudia
Glad you’re feeling better, the blah’s suck! Your partly finished baby sweater is cute, I like the colors even if I’m not seeing them right. A pumpkin hat sounds so cute, you are a busy girl!
Posted by: Vicki
Fooey on that unsafe person.
Aren’t pumpkin hats mandatory for Halloween birthdays? Get crackin’.
Posted by: Iris
That little baby sweater is adorable. Knowing that you created that should make any lingering doubt go away!
Posted by: Becky
I’m glad you overpowered those doubts. Your novel rocks.
Sweater and pumpkin hat? And work deadline? Go, Cari!
Posted by: alison