And in case you're wondering, the pattern has no line-drawing schematic to check AND I am getting both stitch and row gauge. Not to mention being remarkably far along in this NaKniSweMo nonsense. Until now.
Damn.
And the worst part is that I was beginning to run out of enthusiam for knitting this. Sleeves are boring. And long. Especially long when they are too damned long for any normal sweater known to knitter, as I believe I've mentioned. So my attentions were starting to wander. I am still sick enough not to have the energy to spin, especially at my usual fast pace, and the Twist & Shout ribbing is irritating to my befuddled brain. When I saw this yesterday on the Mason-Dixon blog, I started to lust anew. But no, I told myself, I am committed to finishing at least one sweater this month and getting pretty far along on two others. No distractions. No new projects. God knows, no new yarn.
And then came the sleeve cap stretching from here to Timbuktu.
Now, can you really blame me if I've been looking at Lamb's Pride Bulky on the WEBS site and debating what colors I might go get tomorrow, if I'm still in a virally demented snit over this blasted Pebbles pattern? I know you'd be doing exactly the same thing.
Oh, Exalted Sheep on Yonder High Hill, give me the strength to do what I ought, to fulfill my promises, to resist the seductions of NewProjectNewYarnPantPant, to frog and knit that sleeve into submission. And then knit the other sleeve correctly and to match.
I may not be that strong.
4 comments :
I am LMAO here, at your poor viral expense. Your plea to the Sheep Goddess, your ADD with Lamb's Pride. I wish I could say I was above all that.
Never am. Never will be. Hope you recover soon.
You've reminded me why I don't knit piece-y sweaters anymore. I can barely get socks to be the same length!
I wonder if there are any errata out there for Pebbles? Persevere, though. You will be glad you did.
I only say this because I know your mind works that way. (I'm remembering the list of resolutions for 2007.) For myself, I'd say, oh well, I'll come back to it later and do something that sounds fun now. But I know it will eat at you if you put it aside now. You only need to frog back the cap long enough to redo the decreases a little more aggressively.
Yikes, that is maddening.
I've been enjoying not knitting set-in sleeves on my projects for the past year. I think I'm making sweater choices based on them not having set-in sleeves without even realizing it. Another pet peeve I have is sleeves that are too long in the wrist area. Don't these knitwear designers realize we have to wash dishes while wearing our sweaters up here in the cold winters, and would rather not end up with sopping sleeves? Yeesh.
And thank you for the CD; I'll be taking a look at it tonight!
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