I think I mentioned in my last post that James (my boyfriend) wants me to make him a sweater, but I can't start it until I finish something that I've been putting off knitting for someone for MONTHS now.
This woman at my church asked me to knit a poncho for her so she could give it to her daughter for Christmas, and I agreed, and then she asked if I could knit another for her granddaughter (who's, like, 3), and I agreed again, because she's tiny and it wouldn't take very long. Then, about a week later, she asked if I could knit one more for her, and she's just such a nice woman, that I couldn't say no. So I finished the ones for her daughter and her granddaughter before Christmas, but I figured her's didn't need to be done before Christmas, so I kinda put it off... then I forgot about it until my mom kindly reminded me. Sooooooo I'm working my little fingers to the bone trying to finish this poncho so I can be done and have it off of my mind!! I wish I could knit faster...
So ANYWAY, back to the point of my story; James wants a sweater. Now, I know what they say about knitting sweaters for your boyfriend. As soon as I told my mom about it, she said "What about the Boyfriend Sweater Curse??" and my boss said the same thing when I was talking to her about it the other day at the store... Yeah right, like I really believe in that (I think...)
I showed him a couple of sweater patterns to see what he wanted... he rejected the Cobblestone sweater, which made me kinda sad, because it's such a handsome sweater. He also didn't like another of my favorites, the Hidden Agenda Sweater, darn! But we searched through Ravelry and he finally picked out a sweater from Drops Design, 85-1 Mens Pullover with Hood. Luckily the sweater is knit in a bulky yarn so It will go fast (and between you and me, James is small, so I can knit the smallest Size! Woo Hoo!).
I went shopping for yarn the other day for the sweater and decided on Eco Wool, which is a different guage than the yarn the pattern calls for, but I'll make it work. I really want to get started but I HAVE to finish the darn poncho. Back to work.
Does James know how lucky he is?! Make sure you write on a little gift card the number of hours it took to knit the sweater and the number of stitches it contains. It will give the recipient an little glimpse of how much invested time it took and they might appreciate it all the more.
ReplyDeleteI can't believe he rejected the Cobblestone Sweater.
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