And I have started to knit the sleeves
on sweater 2. I so hate knitting sleeves... but its more than time
to have these finished. And I really want to try to have them done
by Monday.
Most weeks, I spend Wednesday with my
DD and the girls...We start at the Queens Library Mother Goose
program, sing songs and listening to stories. The girls love the
time—they love the songs and the stories, and they love seeing all
the other little children. There cheeks must hurt after the hour is
up, because they never stop smiling.
They end up exhausted to, and the
quarter mile walk home is always nap time (which sometimes extends
even after we are home.
Next week, they will miss Mother
Goose—Dr.'s appointments instead, and I will spend Monday with them
(another Dr.s appointment ) —so the race is on to have sweater 2
finished by Monday, Grandma--(their paternal grandmother used to
come Fridays, but she is out of commission for the moment-- She had
knee replacement surgery Monday past—and it will be some months
before she is going to be up to driving and visiting.
So I might be doing double duty and
going twice a week. But I still want to have the sleeves done by
Monday. I tired the sweater on to J--(with the sleeves still on the
needles) and it fits lovely... The puffy yoke and puffy sleeves mean
it will fit over clothes, (and will fit by the end of summer) but the
loose fit means it won't be too warm on cool summer nights—especially
when they go camping up state, or visiting family in the country.
I don't know why I hate making
sleeves—they are so like socks... except—there is the sweater
hanging around. I have always—with 1 exception, made top down
sweaters. I don't remember the sleeves being so onerous in that
sweater.. Maybe I need to start doing more bottom up sweaters, and
knit the sleeves first—like a pair of socks, and then knit the
body, and finally the yoke.
The yoke of the sweater is always the
best part—whether its color work, or lace patterning, or even just
simple miters, there is always design. And working Up it has the
advantage of fewer and fewer (rather than more and more) stitches
every row (or round)
