Extreme Knitting!

This past week has been CRAZY. I finally  finished the Husband Sweater and the Husband is thrilled! It was definitely trying, and I sacrificed much sleep and sanity to finish. Why was this so terrible? Well, since I am teaching at the Urban Craft Center, I have to make some samples of what I am teaching. I wouldn't allow myself to continue with my sample knitting until I finished a very important project: the Husband Sweater. Pressed with my self-made deadlines, I worked into the night with my friend, Lynne. Bless her, she stayed up with me on Sunday and met me at a Starbucks the next day to help me finish for three hours!!! At Starbucks, we realized that I had mis-read the pattern and the sleeve cap decreases were wrong so we had to rip back about 4 inches of work. Plus, ripping out the seams I had worked on all afternoon to complete. At one point our conversation ceased as both our sets of knitting needles were smoking from knitting so fast! At this point, Lynne politely mentions that the sleeves look a bit too long, and I say that I have measured Pat's arms and that it's probably fine. Lynne sewed seams as I wove in many ends and we finished. I couldn't have finished without her. Then, exhausted and drained, I drove home to present my hard work to the Husband. He was sooooo excited and put it on immediately. He hugged me with the sweater still on and thanked me. I step back to look at my handy-work and gasp-- the sleeves are waaaay to long. Of course, in my delicate state, with the realization of possibly ripping it apart AGAIN, I put my head down on the kitchen bar counter and cry.

The next day, I had recovered from my break-down. I called Lynne to thank her for the millionth time or so for helping me and told her about the sleeves. Basically the next step is to pick up stitches, cut  off some of the sleeve and re-knit the ribbing. Ugh, another week...