JBabe Spins

In 2004 when I was 19, I found a picture of my younger self up at the pass, skiing, wearing this wonderful brown, orange, and white sweater. I had long since moved on from the sweater, but I remembered loving it. I learned to knit that winter and made one sort of passable scarf. Over the next few years I made more scarves. Then in 2006 I finally cast on my own brown, orange, and white ski sweater. Which I finished in a reasonable amount of time, except for the hoodie style zipper I wanted to add.

It took me 15 years to decide that since I hadn't ever added the zipper I obviously was never going to, but I STILL wanted my ski sweater. So I sent away for more of the same yarn, and then it kind of sat around awhile longer.

All I was lacking was the decision to make a pullover instead and a year with an actual winter. I started closing the front to make it a pullover last night and finished today. In pattern and everything. The seal isn't perfect, you can tell where the edges would have been, but if anyone points it out I will tell them this story.

Any sweater worth taking 17 years for is worth a small flaw.

So here it is- my reason for knitting. Finally Finally Finished!

At last, I can stop.

(Turns out you can't take a selfie of a fair isle sweater yoke without disrupting the look of the sweater, oh well. Also the fit (from the sweater I started as a very beginner knitter fifteen years ago) is not perfect, but it is sure good enough.)

And yes I HAVE knit other things in the between time.

Made a little bag for summer! It’s knitted as a tube, With stitches picked up on the sides and knit into mesh. It’s reversible for non-seashell formality. I started by knitting three feet of 6 stitch icord and then increasing the stitches to 36 in the round for a foot, then decreasing back to 6 to join.