My dearest friend and knitting accomplice always had me jealous when she knitted up all sorts of super awesome sweaters (thank you Ceci). So what do I decide to do? KNIT A SWEATER! My first real sweater to be precise! It was about time too, since I have been knitting for eight years now and have yet to knit one! I decided to start small and knit a baby sweater to start out with (which worked out well because I had a bunch of baby yarn from my baby shower that never got knit into something for Henry (sorry baby)). I think that this was a good idea considering even the though of knitting something that big to fit a full grown person made me slightly ill :).
The knitting went well (exceptionally well considering I didn't even read the pattern all the way through before hand) until I assembled all the pieces and was ready to do the ribbed border. The first issue that I had was that I didn't want to bother to find cable needles. BIG mistake! I can't even explain what a stupid thing this is for me to have done! 208 stitches picked up on double pointed needles does not
work! I tried that two, maybe three times. Once that failed, I tried to knit the border separately and then sew it on. Again, big mistake because I did not have cable needles. Then I finally broke down and found some cable needles. They were a little too big (I was knitting with size 6 and they were about an 8) but the only thing I had so I had to use them. All went well until I started picking up the stitches. I found that I had dropped a stitch right next the edge. DOPE! Since I was so frustrated by then, I decided to just pick up the stitches on the other side of the run and then secure the loose stitch after I was done. Luckily this worked out well and I finished it! YAY! But judging by that seaming, I need more practice! I think next I'll knit the same pattern for 0-3 months!
My dearest friend and knitting accomplice always had me jealous when she knitted up all sorts of super awesome sweaters (thank you Ceci). So what do I decide to do? KNIT A SWEATER! My first real sweater to be precise! It was about time too, since I have been knitting for eight years now and have yet to knit one! I decided to start small and knit a baby sweater to start out with (which worked out well because I had a bunch of baby yarn from my baby shower that never got knit into something for Henry (sorry baby)). I think that this was a good idea considering even the though of knitting something that big to fit a full grown person made me slightly ill :). 
The knitting went well (exceptionally well considering I didn't even read the pattern all the way through before hand) until I assembled all the pieces and was ready to do the ribbed border. The first issue that I had was that I didn't want to bother to find cable needles. BIG mistake! I can't even explain what a stupid thing this is for me to have done! 208 stitches picked up on double pointed needles does not work! I tried that two, maybe three times. Once that failed, I tried to knit the border separately and then sew it on. Again, big mistake because I did not have cable needles. Then I finally broke down and found some cable needles. They were a little too big (I was knitting with size 6 and they were about an 8) but the only thing I had so I had to use them. All went well until I started picking up the stitches. I found that I had dropped a stitch right next the edge. DOPE! Since I was so frustrated by then, I decided to just pick up the stitches on the other side of the run and then secure the loose stitch after I was done. Luckily this worked out well and I finished it! YAY! But judging by that seaming, I need more practice! I think next I'll knit the same pattern for 0-3 months!
