After all of the knitting for everyone else is finished, it’s time to knit for myself. I had only gotten about halfway through my purple Carrie sweater before I needed to put it away in favor of gift knitting. But now that the weather has turned chilly and wet, I really want to wear it! So I immediately pulled it back out of hibernation and knit like mad.
The rest of the body flew off the needles. That simple diamond pattern really keeps things interesting! As soon as I cast off at the hem, I tried it on. Perfect!
I only made a few modifications to the body. I like my sweaters to hit at or near the widest point of my hip, so I worked an additional set of increases at the bottom of the waist shaping to give me an added inch around the hem, and then I knit to the desired length instead of stopping at the length given in the pattern. This worked out beautifully.
Now there are just the sleeves to knit. Which of course are easy and boring and seem to take forever. But once again it was more important to me to have the desired length in the body, and I wasn’t sure if that would mean there wouldn’t be enough yarn left for long sleeves. Next time I hope I get to knit the sleeves first and get them out of the way. At least I’m working them both at the same time so that when I cast off again I’ll have a finished sweater! And it looks like I’ll have plenty of yarn to make the sleeves as long as I want.
Is it done yet?