I hope your Easter weekend was wonderful! It was super relaxing here – besides a last minute decision to clean the carpets! But its done now and we had a lovely clean house for Easter, which is always nice. The kids played outside a ton and we all indulged in lots of sugar and gluten and buttery treats 🙂
I was able to work a little more on my Say Anything cardigan. The sleeve is getting there, but I definitely need to be more consistent on working on it. Can I be honest for a minute? I cast on using my “normal” body measurements at the end of my pregnancy, and right now, my postpartum body is a good deal larger than what it is normally. So the sweater doesn’t look really flattering when I try it on, and it really doesn’t fit the way I wanted it to. So I just don’t have the motivation to finish it other than not having a WIP that’s 95% done. Ah, such is life and perhaps I should just stick with socks or shawls for the time being 🙂
Reading: Still working on The Child Whisperer, about half way through, and enjoying it.
Shop update: I added quite a few new colorways to the shop last week, and they are getting swooped up! This Friday I plan on a shop update with lots of new project bags and hopefully some restocks and new colorways, too.
I hope your week is wonderful!
How am I just now figuring out you have a shop with yarn!!! Eep! Exciting. The cardi looks great. Be patient w yourself and soldier on, mama. Xoxo
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Haha I just opened it about a week ago! 🙂 Thank you for the encouragement, too 🙂
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Stunning yarn! And the cardi looks amazing – love the color and texture!
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Thank you! I saw someone wearing this bright green color, and I thought, I need to make a sweater from that!
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Don’t fret, finish the cardi, block it, dress as you would when you are going to wear it and then make a decision. I was sure I would hate the last two sweaters, but once I got them ready to wear I changed my mind. Love the color!
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Ahhh that’s good advice, thank you for that. I’m definitely going to finish it, and blocking always does make a world of difference!
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Beautiful yarn and I too would soldier on with the cardi. It is gorgeous and in combination with other pieces may change your mind 🙂
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Thank you for the encouragement! I’ve committed to working on it every evening this week, so it should be finished soon!
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keep knitting the sweater, it is gorgeous 🙂 love the colors of the yarns 🙂
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Thank you!
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I have two words for the cardigan:
1. Gorgeous
2. Blocking
It is beautiful and don’t stress about it fitting so much – remember that a nice soaking and blocking can do wonders for handknits!
Hopefully that is the motivation you need to get it finished!
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Thanks for the great advice! I’ve been working on it consistently this week, so hopefully I’ll be done with it soon and on to the next project!
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It is a gorgeous cardigan – you can always finish it and pop it away until it fits again – I have the same conundrum after three babies in fairly quick succession have left me a lot heavier than I ought to be. I’m mostly knitting for the children instead at the moment; I’ll get back to me later!
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I think that’s what I’ll have to do for the time being. I’d rather knit things for other people anyway!
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