So, shown here is the project which has been taking any knitting time I’ve had for past several months. It’s the Baby Surprise Sweater (Jacket) by Elizabeth Zimmermann, and it’s been an absolutely maddening project, because it’s completely impossible to visualize while you’re knitting. At one point I had to rip back a good 20 rows, because I’d been doing a single increase when I should have been doing a single increase on each side of the marker. Grrr.
But, it’s nearly finished! Shown here it’s lacking about 10 rows, but since the pictures I’ve knitted a good four of those. I really am intending to finish this up before we leave for Glasgow, so that I can work on something soothingly simple upon the train.
Here you can see some of the strangeness: to the left quarter of the shot is actually the neck-line (you can see where I’ve cast off 5 stitches to accommodate the neck). Strange, strange, because the top left is actually the edge of the sleeve. The whole idea here is to be able to knit the sweater without having to sew any seams, and to only have the one graft (across the sleeves).
I used the Zimmerman “pattern” for this, but also made use of the notes here, as Elizabeth is notoriously vague in her instructions (hence my needing to frog all of those rows).
Finished pics by this weekend, hopefully!
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Can’t wait to see the finished product. My sister knits. I had asked her to teach me when we were still teenagers but she never got around to doing it, ah well.