End of Day 12

Today was not a great day for knitting progress. I'll have to do better tomorrow. :/

End of Day 11

There is no sweater. There is only Zuul.

Or sleeve. One of those.

And now, there is only sleep.

End of Day 10

Well, there has been no change to the body of the sweater, so here's an arm. I'm to the point where I need to cast on and knit my second sleeve, so the tops of the two sleeves can be worked at the same time, with steeks between them.

Somehow, I don't think the second sleeve will move *quite* as fast as the first one. Still lovin' magic loop, though.

Onward!

End of Day 9

So, the lion's share of the body is done, and the first sleeve is cast on.

Hilarious story. Apparently, when I ordered a set of size 5 interchangeable tips from KnitPicks, they sent me a pair in a size 5 container...but they're size 4. That means I knit the ENTIRE SWEATER in the wrong side needles.

Guess what? I. DO. NOT. CARE. There is nothing to be done about it, and at least it means that the poor thing is consistently screwed up. (OK, I care a little bit, but not enough to do anything about it. It does emphasize the fact that I need to order more *actual* size 5 needle tips, though.)

The fascinating part of today (because today was Challenging (tm)) was teaching myself the magic loop technique. Right, I'm a convert. I still love my DPNs, but I finally see what the fuss is about. I did the three inches of stockinette on the bottom of the cuff in what seemed like no time.

And whilst I'm cataloging my woes; you know that something has gone terribly badly when one's husband says "Uh...that's kind of ugly." in response to a portion of your knitting. Especially with my colour coordinated husband. For reasons that I do not understand, the kit wanted me to do a three needle cast off on the exterior of the sweater, with the teal'ish yarn. I was dubious, but by then I was so mentally fried that I just wanted to stop, so I followed through. Daven asked if that was a temporary cast off, and when he found out it was not, he made very unhappy noises. So, that means that I tore back the weird teal cast off and redid it with the dark blue. Much more cohesive. I think they meant it to be decorative, but mostly it just looked like poorly planned out crap.

The sleeve was an adventure, too. As I previously stated, I'm knitting the size 48 sweater. Well, the cuffs that go along with that are HUGE. Yes, I understand that you think that the person knitting the XXL is really enormous, but I've got tetchy little wrists. 6" wrists, people! Therefore, with the help of the handy husband-calculator, I figured out how fast my increases will have to be, as I'm making the smallest size cuffs, which fit just great, thankyouverymuch.

Here's to hoping tomorrow is less "beat my head against a wall" and more "tear ass through more stockinette on that sleeve". *fingers crossed*

End of Day 8

This is about the halfway mark for time. Eeek, I hope I can get this done. I'm a row or two away from casting off for the neck, so I'll hopefully finish the body tomorrow and start on a sleeve.

End of Day 7

So, here I am, a week in. Not that I've really been able to use all of that time (see: worked a con last weekend that caused my elbow tendinitis to flare like crazy), but it is comin' along.

I will point out that this sweater has a mountain range right across the bustline. Real subtle, sweater.

End of Day 6

Back to the colours! Fie on you, stockinette stitch of boring!

...Of course, tonight I was feeling pretty good about myself. "Yeah! I'm FLYIN' along!" You can see where this went. "So I need to cast off for the steek...2 rows ago." *cusses a lot* *tinks* I think I did more tinking tonight than knitting, between being mentally distracted and kind of crashy with waiting too long between meals. But, still, here we are.

I admit it. I have never steeked before. I am a little frightened. Let's hope that this totally normal thing that thousands of people do ALL THE TIME doesn't get totally messed up by yours truly.

End of Day 5

2" left of blue stockinette to go!

End of Day 4

So much stockinette to go before the next patterned part. *groan*

This is also the 48" size, so, it's not going to exactly zip along. Hey, I've got a lot up top, and the pattern calls for it to be loose. Ha, good luck with that.

Day 4

Unsurprisingly, considering I had a con to work this last weekend, I am behind schedule on knitting. I'm most of the way through the bottom fair isle band on the body, and will have inches and inches of plain blue knitting very soon.

On the upside, today is a holiday, so I'm spending it mostly knitting and watching musicals, so I might get slightly less behind, though it'll be quite a trick to catch up. I might do end-of-day photos to document my progress and keep me motivated. Whee.