My First Sweater

One t-shirt, two weeks, it’s done!

Yeah, it still needs a good wash and block. Because the bottom hem rolls something awful right now. And because there is some dried cheeze wiz on it, from being worked on while the folks on the Seattle flight gave us our ad-in-a-box snack.

I reworked the collar about five times. Finally decided that the trick was to knit one less row than called for, and whip stitch it to the selvage of the body color. That makes the interior of the hem nearly two stitches shorter than the outside, and that seemed to help keep it from flaring out.

I wore it today at the shop, and after a wash it’ll be going to live there until the class. Anyone wanna learn how to knit a sweater?

Today was my second saturday at the shop, and it was all sorts of fun again. This time the daughter (about 10 yrs old?) of one of the owners was around, and she was fun to work with. We were looking through some magazines, criticizing some of the sweaters. She called my attention to one that was particularly hideous, and we laughed at it, and then she noticed the “my first sweater” title on top of the page. “Oh,” she said, “it’s not that bad if it is her first sweater.”

here’s hoping the “first sweaters” in my class will not elicit the same response.