This sweater will soon join the unmentionable list

I have been working away on this sweater like crazy...and this is all i have done:

I had all my loose ends tied up and was going to work only on this sweater for a while. Yeah right! That lasted for like 5 rows (that took me 2 hours to complete).

I think I have knitlargeitemitis [knit-large-item-i-tis], an illness characterized by an aversion to knitting anything larger than pint sized. This illness often affects knitters that have knit 60+ items under a size 2T and thus are accustomed to projects taknig less than an eon to knit.

I knew it was going to be a problem when the pattern started with "cast on 141 stitches."

I've decided that instead of cranking out this sweater as I planned I will tink away on it between said pint sized items. Speaking of pint sized items, here area few I have finished or am working on.


Finished Scrappies for Dex:

Longies for Dex in a super pretty colorway. Yes my little man rocks purple, he rocks the shit out of purple!

And a secret project, that will soon become something for someone very special to me.

I'm the laziest guage swatcher in the world!

But at least I'm blocking it!

I finally wound the yarn for my sweater into a ball. In the pattern, the author wrote: Take time to make time. Check your gauge. She even bolded it. Geeze! Way to guilt a person into knitting a swatch.

I hate doing gauge swatches. They are such a waste of time. Essentially, you knit a square to make sure you have a certain number of stitches in a certain length on the needle size specified. Otherwise your sweater may end up bigger or smaller than intended. I NEVER swatch. Basically because I'm too excited to start knitting, but I'm also usually knitting pint sized items, so if my gauge isn't working out I can frog back the small amount of work I've done and restart. So i guess I do swatch, but I do it it by starting the item.

This time around I'm knitting a me sized item, which is considerably larger than pint sized.

And so I swatch, because if I got to the bodice of the sweater and realised my gauge was off I can guarantee I would stuff into the back of my yarn-oire (armoire - appropriately named by the Mister) and never look at it again.

But I will admit, I knit a half-assed swatch. I'm supposed to knit a 5 inch by 5 inch square but mine is 5 inches by about 3, only because my row gauge isn't nearly as important as my stitch gauge, and I'm a lazy swatcher.

Oh and here are the crappy scrappies I'm working on. I finished one leg and am taking a break to start my sweater, but I supposed you figured that out.

Ugh! Scrappies are going to be the end of me!

I started a pair of scrappies for Dex. I got yarn from Dear Husband specifically for it. I was so excited to start them becasue they are going to be so cute.

 BUT, and this is a big but, they are a lot of work. I'm only doing 3 rows of each colorway because otherwise it looked too blocky. I was weaving in ends through the body but for the legs I decided to do felted joins, which adds to the amount of work. Does it ever suck to stop after every 3 rows and fiddle with ends of yarn only to do it all over again in three more rows. :bangs head on wall!:

They will be fantastic when they are done though!

I finished this last week:

Yarn: DiscoBaby Knits "Storybook Ending"
Pattern: Sheepy Pants and Making Mischief Vest

And check this puppy out! It will be a monster for my little monster Riso.

Pattern: Lucy's Owl (made mods for monster)
Yarn: KnitPicks Chroma Worsted in Lollipop

The Uber Pink Sweater!

Is done! Hallelujah! I will never mention it again, and if I do I will simply call it The Unmentionable.

I wonder if it would make pink flames if I burnt it?

I am so sick of knitting The Uber Pink Sweater! I can't wait to post a FO picture and never, ever mention it again. I bought the buttons today, and i have like three more inches of pocket to knit and I am done! The sewing was the very worst, but it was done during a road trip so it didnt feel like such a waste of time.

I got the yarn to knit myself a sweater! It is Madelintosh Pashmina and the color is called Composition Book Grey.

image borrowed from Jimmy Beans Wool

I'm going to knit this sweater:

image borrowed from cecilyam on Ravelry.com

I'm going to do a longer version though, cropped sweaters are not my bag baby.

Oh, and I am finally finished M's romper!

 And Annie's Mittens!