the blue blog archives: sleevesly

Man is there a lot of knitting in a drop sleeve! I had to rip this first sleeve out one time to get the decreases and shape right and it was like ripping out the whole back! Very sad. Very much reknitting. Very not excited about knitting yet another giant sleeve.

posted by alison at 8:56 am | in even more weasleys

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There, there *pats on back*, don't worry, you're almost done now. I haven't even finished the back yet!

Posted by: Helene at September 5, 2006 9:21 AM

But oh it looks great :D

Posted by: Rosemary at September 5, 2006 9:25 AM

Those Weasley sweaters are truly to die for, but they are not supposed to die from!

Posted by: lorinda at September 5, 2006 9:27 AM

You're almost there, don't worry. And at least the sleeves are knitted on (at least that's what they look like), so there's no setting them in.

Posted by: Dorothee at September 5, 2006 9:36 AM

It looks great :)

Posted by: pixiepurls at September 5, 2006 9:55 AM

Is this one knit at a different gage than your original pattern that uses the Rowan Felted Tweed? I would love to make more of these in a yarn/pattern that knit up more quickly. I'm still working on mine (knit in Midnight/Corn Felted Tweed)...but the miles of plain st st are soooo boring that it's not my favorite project...it's what got me started knitting, but it keeps getting set aside for more interesting projects...like SOCKS! I'm hooked on socks lately.

Posted by: Patty at September 5, 2006 11:03 AM

It looks great, regardless of all the frogging and reknitting. :)

Posted by: Samantha at September 5, 2006 12:40 PM

Will that sweater be for you?

Posted by: Mary at September 5, 2006 1:06 PM

Ah, you're just hearing The Song of the Sirens of Sleeve Island. Put some wool in your ears to block it out, and you'll have knit the second sleeve in no time at all.

Posted by: Sarah at September 5, 2006 1:36 PM

Poor, poor knitter!
Poor, poor Allison!
We pine with you for the fallen sleeve
Re-knit from the ashes of frogs!
(It is, however wonderful now!)

Posted by: Jo at September 5, 2006 2:04 PM

So then, one of those sleeves is named Fawlkes?
I like the idea of one sleeve being raised from the wreckage of the old sleeve...more Potterish somehow.

Posted by: Scotlynn at September 5, 2006 7:01 PM

OK. I need a new wand or some help in casting a spell(ing)...that would be Fawkes not Fawlkes.
You'd think I was a first year just off the boat, aye?

Posted by: Scotlynn at September 5, 2006 7:24 PM