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Well, August was really hot, and my new office is a sauna when it's hot. I didn't feel like knitting when I got home from work, because I was so relieved to be out of a 36-38° (C) environment that the idea of putting this now-very-large project on my lap and sweating through summer knitting of Irish wool just didn't appeal. So I put it aside from the last week or so of July. Then, when I decided to pick it up again at the beginning of September, I had misplaced the pattern. Actually, I'd just put it in a very logical place, but I didn't realise what that logical place was until after I'd ordered a second copy of the pattern from Marily over at Blackwater Abbey Yarns, the company that supplied the wool and pattern in the first place. They did a trunk show at Nease's Needlework the year before I left for the UK, and I bought the materials for this jumper then and there, because I knew I had to make it. Some of us from the shop intended to do it as a Knit-A-Long, but we never got it together. I suspect my former coworker finished hers long before I even began mine; she's efficient like that!
Anyway, when I picked the jumper up again, I was about halfway down one sleeve. I cast off the first sleeve on Tuesday night, then picked up stitches and rejoined the saddle stitches to a needle for the second sleeve that same night. Yesterday I was ill and actually had to leave work early (thank the gods for helpful coworkers), which did not improve my efficiency since I huddled into my bed like a big flu-ridden lump and knitted not at all. I had to teach a class last night, so no knitting got done last night. (Yes, I went to teach sick. It's not like they could have got another teacher to complete a three-class course for me. My notes aren't exactly out there for everybody to see, though I suppose some of them should be).
So I'm about two inches in to that second sleeve, and hoping I can keep the steam going until I'm all done. I'm pleased with the way the jumper fits so far, and I'm really looking forward to wearing it!
( Single picture beneath cut tag, with long, partially redundant caption )
To see other pictures of this project, from beginning to now, check out posts with the Celtic Dreams tag, or view the ScrapBook tag gallery for this piece. Notes for this project on Ravelry are almost identical to notes here.
Anyway, when I picked the jumper up again, I was about halfway down one sleeve. I cast off the first sleeve on Tuesday night, then picked up stitches and rejoined the saddle stitches to a needle for the second sleeve that same night. Yesterday I was ill and actually had to leave work early (thank the gods for helpful coworkers), which did not improve my efficiency since I huddled into my bed like a big flu-ridden lump and knitted not at all. I had to teach a class last night, so no knitting got done last night. (Yes, I went to teach sick. It's not like they could have got another teacher to complete a three-class course for me. My notes aren't exactly out there for everybody to see, though I suppose some of them should be).
So I'm about two inches in to that second sleeve, and hoping I can keep the steam going until I'm all done. I'm pleased with the way the jumper fits so far, and I'm really looking forward to wearing it!
( Single picture beneath cut tag, with long, partially redundant caption )
To see other pictures of this project, from beginning to now, check out posts with the Celtic Dreams tag, or view the ScrapBook tag gallery for this piece. Notes for this project on Ravelry are almost identical to notes here.
