JessaLu Knits (and Spins!)

It’s finished! Blocked and drying, even ;o)

I did the kitchenering across the hood twice - you know, because I enjoyed it so much the first time I just had to do it again.

Photos and details later ;o) Now, it damned well better be 50 degrees and partly cloudy like the weatherman has been promising so I can wear this bad boy on Saturday!

Since I have no pictures for you….here’s this…seen at Deb’s:

HowManyOfMe.com

There are: 33 people with my name in the U.S.A. How many have your name?

Go forth and amuse thyselves ;o)

…my progress so far:

The hood progress:

That marker is the 6.5″ mark, which is halfway to when I’m supposed to start making decreases, which is about 10 rows, after that I graft the two halves of the hood together.

Remember what I said about hoods being HUGE? Let me give you an example. This hood is 80 stitches across, roughly half of the stitches that are in the body of the sweater. This section is knit in stockinette to 13 inches (I’ll probably do 14 because I like a little bit of droop in my hoods - and I don’t like the number 13), then there is another inch or so of decrease rows. 15 or 16 inches of stockinette. It IS half a sweater! I knit all day to get where I’m at right now - and half my problem is I suck at purling. *sigh* if I didn’t really like how the damned thing would look I would have just done a collar.

Okay now that I’m done whining…back to knitting…

….I’m working on a sweater. One that actually fits and is made from yarn that has been in my stash since May 2005. Wanna see my progress? Okay since you twisted my arm…

I’m not sure if I’ll finish this by…well, you know. It’s top down so the body is done and one sleeve was completed earlier today. The biggest obstacle is…it has a hood. Apparently I do not learn from all of my mistakes. We’ll see…if it takes me too long, this thing just might end up hoodless.

When I tried it on this evening and pointed out to my lovely daughter that I had already completed one sleeve, she decided to point out that, “now you get to knit the other one…” She’s lucky she runs fast and I’m still recovering so I can’t catch up. (oh, the latest? I have asthma. And some kind of bronchial spasm thingy going on. Still coughing, just not as much. Yee. Ha.)

That’s all I’ve been knitting this week (I cast on last Saturday while Cyn and I were watching Memoirs of a Geisha…no wait, I cast on earlier that day, it was during the movie that I had to rip out like four inches of knitting. SO glad I remembered that.), all socks have been shoved aside - Bayerische keeps glaring at me from her end of the couch. I think she’s feeling abandoned. Oh well, she’ll get over it. This is a Rhinebeck sweater, after all ;o) (oh and if the weather here gets any colder ya’ll are going to need long johns for this shindig…just sayin…)

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I also wanted to show you that RR can clean up very well (since I showed you how filthy dirty he can be whilst being a firefighter):

This is how he looked on his way to working the annual steak dinner tonight - however, I’m betting he returns sweaty and dirty…again. ;o)