Some Days Are Shorter Than Others
The pattern for PS136 in Poetry in Stitches is about four printed pages long. Two of those pages are charts, and there's a photo of the sweater that also takes up some space. So I should properly say that the pattern for PS136 takes up about one and three quarters pages.
Now, if time and space were fair, and the relationship of one to the other were a reliable indicator, you would think, having knit this sweater and covered the ground of 95% of that part of the pattern, that I would be able to wrap this baby up in a few hours, or even (given the intrusion of such things as sleep, magazine production and uh, children) a week.
But it's been ages since I cast off the second sleeve and started the section of the pattern that Solveig Hisdal quaintly calls "Finishing". Progress is sloooooowwwwww, and steeking, seaming, lashing down the facings, steeking, picking up and knitting of button and neck bands, and the tacking together of button holes has taken me ages.
So three sentences turn out to mean about a month's worth of work. Give or take a winter issue of Twist. But I'm almost there. Almost. Which could mean, given the current time space relationship, about a year.
Nice finishing view!
Posted by: Manise | November 14, 2008 at 09:05 PM
What, you haven't cast on for at least half of the new Twist patterns?! Bad Julia. Bad, bad Julia. Finish up that silly PS136, give it to me so it's out of your hair, and start cracking on those Twistables. You only have three months till the next Twist, you know.
(sorry about mentioining the next Twist. that was a bit of a low blow, I suspect.)
Posted by: Lynn | November 14, 2008 at 09:11 PM
This one has been a real labor of love.
Posted by: Ruth | November 14, 2008 at 09:59 PM
Not only is the sweater wonderful...what I've seen of it...but Winter Twist totally blew my mind. You ladies are a phenomenon! I doff my hat and bow.
Posted by: Dr. Judy | November 15, 2008 at 05:42 AM
I sort of love that finishing takes a while. It's so close to the end, but it really does take a long time! Good luck finishing up!!
Posted by: Mandy | November 15, 2008 at 08:40 AM
Looking good! (I spy a Jenny the Potter mug!)
Posted by: Gigi | November 15, 2008 at 01:29 PM
I love watching PS136 evolve.
Posted by: Chris | November 16, 2008 at 06:37 AM
Whenever! It will be gorgeous and worth the wait.
Posted by: Kathy | November 16, 2008 at 09:31 AM
Long...longer...longest. I'm guessing you will be happy with the FO, and the fact that it will BE an FO.
Posted by: Laurie | November 16, 2008 at 11:02 AM
I love the way the Norgis write patterns. Two sentences and a chart, and you've got an entire, vastly complicated sweater. But they are pretty darn misleading. I've been working on a sweater from Norsk Strikkedesign (with similar minimalist patterns) since 2003. So really. You're doing great.
Posted by: JulieT | November 16, 2008 at 12:30 PM
It's really looking lovely, Julia. And I know that when you finish it, the attention to detail will be worth the wait.
Posted by: Danielle | November 16, 2008 at 09:00 PM
Can't wait to see it!
Posted by: Christie | November 18, 2008 at 05:46 PM