I’ve been working on my sweater for a long, long, long time now.  Now that I’m knitting and blogging again, I think it is time for a FLAK update.  I checked back to see what my last update was.

WOW!

It was in February.  I’ve made a lot of progress since then.  I worked the start of the front.  I picked up and finished both sleeves.  I joined the body and worked about 7 inches.

I’ve got about 7 inches left to go in the cable pattern, then 2 inches of ribbing.  Once that’s done, the only thing I have left to do is the neck ribbing,  and hide all those darn yarn tails.

My goal is to finish this sweater in 2008.

I’ve really enjoyed this sweater.  However, I’m ready for it to be done.  Mostly because I want to wear the darn thing.  That, and I promised myself that I’d finish this one before I’m allowed to purchase yarn for my next sweater.

I knit a couple of baby sweaters when I first learned how to knit.  They were mostly stockinette, and I remember thinking how much work they were.  Well, they’ve got nothing on this baby.  This thing is a lot of fun to work on, never a boring moment with all those cables.  But it is a lot of work.

Unless plans change, my next sweater will be cabled, but in a much, much larger gauge.  Think size 11 needles and chunky yarn.  I’m expecting it to go much faster.

The bottom looks pinched because I’m using a circular needle that’s a few inches too small.  I tried switching to a longer needle, but that kept puckering while I was knitting.  It annoyed me, so I switched back to the shorter needle.  Besides, I really like working with my Lantern Moon!

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