I know, I know. We've just finished with winter (if not quite yet in some parts of the country). This is not the time to start thinking about Christmas again. Or is it? Knitting time operates on a different space time continuum than regular time. Case in point: knitted socks. Sure, I could just pop down to the store and buy a ten pack of pre-made socks for a mere five buckaroos. Or, I could spend way more than that on pretty sock yarn plus hours and hours of knitting to come out with one pair. Option two please and thank you. And I shall not once think about the loss of time spent knitting them because it's not a loss it's an incredibly enjoyable experience.
So, if you're a knitter hoping to make a Christmas sweater for yourself, it turns out this is the perfect time. You see, my brilliant and talented friend Andi came up with the awesome idea of knitting a Christmas sweater as a long-term project. Brilliant. This sweater with not compete with my other holiday knitting, nor will it fall the way of past Christmas-targeted projects that historically have not been finished until January or February (said historical evidence can be found here and here).
In a mere nine months (whoa, it just hit me that this sweater has the same gestation period as a human baby) that heap of yarn pictured above will be transformed into a beautiful Meltwater Pullover by Kate Gagnon Osborn of Kelbourne Woolens, as it appeared in the Spring issue of Interweave Knits. As you can see, instead of the springtime yarn and color scheme presented in the original I'm going with a more holiday-esque palette. I'm using yarn from three different reclaimed sweaters in 100% wool. Now, all I have to do is stick to this list of simple bullet points:
- March - Knit 7" of body (half of 14")
- April - Finish last 7" of body to the armpits
- May - Make half of first sleeve
- June - Finish first sleeve
- July - Make half of second sleeve
- August - Finish second sleeve
- September - Join sleeves to body and start the yoke
- October - Finish the yoke
- November - Seaming, finishing, and blocking
- December - Wear it every friggin day.
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