The Sweater Challenge week 7

SuKnitWitty and I met for our weekly sweater knitting (the other two had unknitterly stuff to do). Su is still trying to fit a round sleeve into a square hole. And I am still cabling the back. I'm thinking I need to work on my sweater more than one day a week, lol! I have to knit 7" more on the back before I can even begin to start the armhole shaping!!

So I'm wondering.... will I ever get all this yarn knitted into a sweater?!

The Sweater Challenge week 5

This weeks SweaterCapade was a challenge! a snowy, cold challenge...


yep, we still have snow and ice on the ground. AND we had snow flurries!! (I know, I know, most the states have had LOTS of snow already but we only get it once a year)

It was way too cold to be outside. So we all stayed home and met virtually for our Wed. Knit Group.

I built a fire and sat in my chair to work on my sweater.

I managed to knit 10 rows on the back of my sweater (doesn't seem like much but trust me, it's a few hours worth of work)

SuKnitWitty is still trying to fit her round sleeve into the square hole.

The Yarn Sleuth frogged her tea cozy sweater after discovering a couple errors. (she decided to do some swatches to try out steeking) And she has now been sidetracked by fingerless mitts (yep, my fault, lol)

And our fourth member, well, she has us all beat. I think she has the back to her sweater almost done!

Don't forget to stop by SuKnitWitty's blog and link your project to virtually join our Wed. Knit Group.

The Sweater Challenge week 4

Doesn't look like knitting does it?  Nope, it was a birthday luncheon. We had two birthdays to celebrate this month. For an appetizer we had crab cheese spread & crackers.  For lunch we had crab quiche, spring salad, and drop biscuits.  And for dessert we had a wonderfully delicious cookie bar (it had crushed Heath Candy Bar bits in it, yum!)  Oh, and did I mention we had chocolate tea! Yep, I said chocolate.

After tea and dessert, there was a little knitting accomplished.

For more pictures about the birthday lunch and some actual knitting pictures, check out SuKnitWitty.  She also has the MckLinky set up so you can link your project and virtually join our Wed. Knit Group.

Come on in... sit and knit a spell... I'll fix you a cup of tea.

great Sweatercapade storyteller is back

Our Sweatercapade storyteller is back! She was missed (besides the fact that she did not get to knit much on her sweater, lol)

Check out SuKnitWitty's blog as she tells the tale about GJ's "challenging" sweater!

And yes, we did save her some chocolate. 

The Sweater Challenge week 3

The Wednesday Knit Group (minus one yesterday) got together to work on our sweaters

As you can see I did not get very far on mine

I think I managed to get 4 rows done in between the project sharing, tea drinking, chocolate eating and story telling. lol

I hope to have more done to show you next week.

The Sweater Challenge week 2

An update on the Must Have Cardigan...

... it doesn't look like I've gotten very far.  But after I've tweaked my spreadsheets a couple of times, and added stitch markers I think I'm finally off to a good start. I'm liking it so far. And it is great having a day dedicated to working on the sweater! It leaves the evenings free to knit on the numerous socks and a scarf, lol.

 For more pictures on my sweater/charts/spreadsheets (lol), check out SuKnitWitty's blog.  She highlighted my sweater for this week of the Sweatercapades.

Picky Picky

The Wednesday Knit Group decided we would all work on a sweater on Wednesday this year.  So, this past Wednesday, I officially started my sweater.

After ripping out the ribbing two times, (I didn't like how the cast on looked for the first one and then I discovered the pattern had been upsized and that size would fit me better so I "frogged" it again) the ribbing is done and the first row of the back is on the needles.

 Must Have Cardigan (ravelry link) from Paton's booklet "Street Smart"

Now, I don't want to say I'm a perfectionist picky but I do want this sweater to look good. I look at myself as a "high achiever" enjoying the process of achieving my goal of a perfect good looking sweater.

This sweater will definitely have lots to keep my focused by keeping track of what row I'm on for the moss stitch section, the first cable section and then the second cable second. All of these sections have a different amount of rows!

So what to do? Well, of course you build a spreadsheet!! lol

Now I can cross off each section as I do it keeping track of what row and what section I'm on. I also have a sticky note on the cable charts highlighting what row I'm working on. Sound crazy? naw... it works well.  (I have taken over the dining room table with all my charts and papers.)

So now hop on over to SuKnitWitty's blog to get the full scoop on the start to our sweater making.  She's much better at tellin' the tale of our sweatercapades.