12.19.2005

are you sitting? ok.

i'm actually working on the cathode. i know, i know. it's hard to believe. i have the needles and the sweater and the yarn and the instructions all together at one time and i'm knitting it. insane!

seriously, though, aside from this puppy, i'm 100% done with my xmas knitting. good times. i finally picked this bad boy up last night and managed to do all of the picking up and knitting of stitches along the follar, as well as the first 4 rows of knitting. i just completely another one a few minutes ago, which means i have 5 (possibly 7, depending on how long it takes for me to get to 1.5") and a bind off and I'M DONE!

to be fair, the pattern is wonderful. very straightforward. the body of the sweater knits up ridiculously quickly, which is always a plus. if i hadn't listened to someone's advice on which size to make and lost some weight, i might actually keep it. i might only have worn it around the house, since the colors don't really suit me (i'm a DORK!), but...what can you do.

so, now this sweater will find a home with another knitter who actually requested that i finish it for her (instead of frogging and or burning it like i was planning on doing) on xmas. yay!

update: it's done. oh my goddess. i think i might pass out.

i really, really, really don't like the way the ribbing on the collar looks, but...the other ribbings looks funky, too, but looks good on. i'll try it on when i get home and, if the collar doesn't look better, maybe i'll try and block it a bit. or maybe iron it. we shall see.

NOTE: i did not use the recommended yarns for my cathode, instead opting to me a "cheap cathode" to make sure i liked the shape of it before using the red gedifra yarn i had bought (which is now slowly becoming a crocheted afghan, thanks to nadine).

i just had to add that i started cathode on january 25th, 2005. i'm so lame! i can't believe it took that long!