My First Sweater

Here are the pictures I promised (by the way, it's really hard to take a picture of a sweater when you're wearing it):


































Happy knitting! :)

Finished!

As of about 10 minutes ago, my sweater is done. I had to stop knitting it last Saturday because of an error in the pattern (the shoulder instructions were missing). But today around 5pm, I got an email with the corrections, and I've been knitting my butt off ever since. I finished the actual knitting part earlier this evening (since I had just the shoulders of the front to finish), and then began the making up part of it. For those of you who are wondering, the time it took to sew together my first sweater was almost equal to the time it takes to go through the entire "Phantom of the Opera" soundtrack once. I will post pictures tomorrow. To those of you who are done as well, we did it. :)

Happy knitting! :)

Update and Olympics

First, updates:
1) I finished a baby blanket for a friend (her baby will be my goddaughter)

















2) I have started my first sweater (see below) using a pattern from Creative Knitting magazine.

Second, Olympics.
I am taking part in the Knitting Olympics hosted by Stephanie Pearl-McPhee. I finished the Spiral Cowl, which was the project I decided to do. I think I should have picked something a bit more challenging (I finished the Cowl in three days), and so now I am determined to finish my sweater before the torch goes out. I have a sleeve, the back, and half the front done so far.


















Happy knitting! :)