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It has come to my attention that I am quite the lapsed blogger and pocaster and I plan on remedying that! I’ve been busy, I’ve been sick, I’ve been lazy, and so on but in any case there’s lots of catching up to do. Most projects I was working on for myself like the Kauni Eleanor Stole and the Mystery Stole (which has since been revealed to be based upon a Guinevere theme) have been on hold while I’ve been working on gift knitting for the holidays.

So, going back to where I left off, I did finally finish Dad’s birthday sweater about a month after his birthday.

Holy cow was this sweater some work! Superwash wool in this weight does weird things in water. I know now that I should have knit it at a tighter gauge. You can see from this picture where it is on Dad how the purls are stretched out wide:

All that cabling and moving stitches made for lots of stretching the yarn plus the looser gauge (4 stitches per inch) and the superwash made for a bit of a disaster when I first washed and dryed this thing. It got about 5 inches wider and 3 inches shorter. There was lots of ripping and lengthening and pinning back and hemming until I finally got it right.

Despite the headaches and the panic near the end, I really enjoyed designing and knitting this and I’m so glad that it fits Dad well and he loves it!

Stay tuned for more catch up posts on all the gift knitting!