Sunday, January 13, 2008

Sesame Sweater (Post 2)

It's nearing the end!
This past week (week and a half), my tendonitis has come back with a vengeance. To give you an example of it's severity, it hasn't been this bad since last April when I was spending almost all of my time on the computer researching and typing up 20-30 page papers. I don't even know what's caused it this time around. Knitting? Piano? Light typing? Something at work? All the above?Friday though, I finally cracked. I was going to start knitting this sweater again, even if it did make my hands utterly useless. And it paid off! I'm almost done with the second sleeve now and I was able to seam both sides of the sweater to the back!
Now all that's left to do is finish up that second sleeve, block it, seam it. Then work on the buttonhole band and the collar. Then it will be finished! FINISHED!
I'm still a little paranoid about the sleeves being enormous and I do still think that I probably should have gone with the pattern for the large size instead of x-large, but hey. At least the body fits comfortably and the stripes (more or less) match up. It's all coming together. And thankfully it's coming together better than I originally thought it would.

After I'm finally done with this I think I'm moving onto socks. I have some gorgeous sock yarn that I'm going to use. And I haven't made socks in a really long time.