Today was a relaxing Saturday full of knitting. I woke up with the intention of finishing up the body of my dad's sweater and ended up spending the whole day knitting (with breaks here and there for domestic life).
It did not take me long to finish up the front of the sweater and bind off the neck and shoulders. I texted this photo to my parents joking that I was going to leave it as a vest ;) It actually looks pretty much like a garment! I'm so pleased. The armhole sections were worrisome as I was working through them since they stretch and hang funny off the needles.
I popped out to my local yarn store around midday to see if I could get some tiny circumference needles for working up the sleeves because I am kind of tired of dealing with dpns right now. Alas, she did not have my size in stock, but she was very helpful and suggested knitting with two circulars and explained it enough that I could come home and give it a shot. I have never knitted anything this way before and I have to say, it's not too bad! It certainly beats magic loop for me and was a nice break from working on dpns (the gnomes....).
Once the circumference got big enough I switched to just using the short 16-inch circulars that I had in my stash. Not having to switch needles in middle of a round saves a lot of time, but interestingly was a little bit harder on my hands in terms of fatigue.
It's the end of the day now and I have made it just past the elbow on this first sleeve. It will be interesting to see how my hands feel tomorrow in terms of whether or not another few marathon days are possible to get this sweater potentially finished in time to ship mid December. Hmmmmm....
