{"id":2983,"date":"2006-07-29T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-07-29T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fromutopia.com\/?p=2983"},"modified":"2006-07-29T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2006-07-29T06:00:00","slug":"the-complications-of-sweater-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cariluna.com\/wp\/the-complications-of-sweater-love\/","title":{"rendered":"The complications of sweater love"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have fallen madly, passionately, irrationally in love with the cover sweater from the Fall ’06 IK. (photo snagged from IK<\/a> site)<\/p>\n

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This sweater love brings with it a few complications:<\/p>\n

1. I don’t get much knitting time these days, so it would probably take me many many months to complete this sweater.<\/p>\n

2. The knitting time I do get is frequently interrupted, so perhaps a charted pattern isn’t the best choice, as chances are pretty damn good that I would lose my place pretty regularly.<\/p>\n

3. I have no idea what size to knit, because I don’t know what size I will be when the sweater is finished.<\/p>\n

Number three is the biggest complication. I gained 46 pounds during the pregnancy and am now 20 pounds above my pre-pregnancy weight. The initial weight loss was quick because it was mostly baby and fluids, but now I’m losing at a rate of .5 to 1 pound per week. (Just from breastfeeding and walking and carrying a 12-pound baby etc. I’m not dieting or anything, since the quality of Thumper’s breast milk matters much more to me than the size of my jeans. Plus I don’t really do the diet thing.)<\/p>\n

So here’s the complication: Do I knit the sweater in my former size, assuming the weight loss will continue at this rate, thus landing me back at the old weight by the time the sweater is done? Or do I knit a larger size just in case, with the thinking that a slightly oversized sweater is more flattering than one that’s way too tight? And how about this: Do I knit the larger size because I’ll still be breastfeeding for the next year or two, and so my chest measurement will still be larger, regardless of the size of the rest of me?<\/p>\n

Complication # 3.5 is that it would mean buying yarn, which I really shouldn’t be doing right now given the financial realities of my not having worked for the past 8 weeks. Freelancers don’t get paid when they don’t work, so no such thing as maternity leave. Sigh. I don’t have any stash yarns in a wide enough color range to knit it entirely from the stash. Though now that I write this, I’m remembering that I have a good amount of Inca Alpaca (which is what the pattern calls for), and though I know I only have one of the colors for the colorwork, I think I may have enough of a color that would work as the main color…so maybe yarn buying won’t be an issue after all. I can certainly justify buying a few skeins of contrast colors. Hmmm…<\/p>\n

Before I dive into this sweater, if I do decide to dive into this sweater, I really do want to get back to the Sunrise Circle Jacket and finish it. Steph<\/a> has inspired me with hers.<\/p>\n

Oh…and good news. Had my six-week postpartum checkup yesterday, and I’ve been cleared to go back to yoga. Woohoo! Thumper and I will hit our first parent\/baby yoga class on Monday. We’re very excited. What I haven’t mentioned before is that the kid has superhuman strength. He’s been lifting his head since the day he was born and now has really impressive head control, AND he can roll from his back to his stomach. So who knows what feats of daring he’ll pull off in yoga class. (None, probably. Truth is it’s a class where the parents do yoga and the kids are welcome, so parents can keep up their practice without separating from kiddo. Thumper will be lying on a blanket in front of my mat.)<\/p>\n

This blogging time has been brought to you by my kindly husband, greatest new dad in all the land. I tanked the kid up on breast milk, then handed him over to his daddy and headed up to my office for some alone time. (I’m supposed to be working on that freelance job and then my novel revisions. Shhh! Don’t tell that I’m blogging!) They’re awfully quiet down there, though… I wonder what those boys are up to…<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have fallen madly, passionately, irrationally in love with the cover sweater from the Fall ’06 IK. (photo snagged from IK site) This sweater love brings with it a few complications: 1. I don’t get much knitting time these days, …<\/p>\n

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