Now Comes the Hard Part

Knitting is finis

Now it's time to cut the steeks

Who has the valium?

A little Haiku for Sandy.

There it is.  Knitting finished.  Now comes the part I dread.  I've done steeks a bunch of times but it always takes shots of vodka a strong will to cut something you've knit.  Especially when you knit it in acrylic - GASP! Because acrylic doesn't stick together like wool does.  Dan's Hardangervidda has been a royal pain.  It was knit in super-wash wool and the yarn is slicker than snot.  Every time he wears it I have to repair something.

I'm a wool snob but I love my cousin.  She has four girls age eight and under and now the baby.  I think she'd appreciate not having to worry about felting wool.  Still... now that I think about it I wish that I had gone with the wool because she's going to have to hand wash it anyway and seriously, he's probably going to get to wear it like twice.  I need to get it in the mail in the next couple of days because if he weighed this on January 1st....

... chances are that he may have already outgrown it.   We're going up to New Hampshire for a visit in February but I'm afraid to wait that long.  Usually it takes me at least a week to work myself up to cut but I don't have the time with this one.

Thanks for all the kind words about Lucky aka Sir Cha Ching.  He was pretty out of it all day yesterday.   Aggie was very gentle with him and sort of hovered over him all day like she knew.  She's usually jumping on him and tugging him around by an ear or a lip or whatever she can grab with her teeth.  Not yesterday.  She sniffed all the parts that hurt and stayed by his side.  It was so sweet.

Comments

[Wool Winder]

The sweater is so cute. I hope the cutting goes well--no unraveling. I have to go pick up our dogs today after boarding them for a week while we were on our trip. I was dreading the bill until I read about how much you've spent on Lucky. Should be a breeze for me to write that check now.

[Lynne]

So glad to see posts & pix again from my favorite blog, check in at least every other day just in case.

[Norma]

Oh, that sweater is SO CUTE. I sure hope it fits for more than 23 seconds. Those dogs. You're killin' me. I'm telling you, was ever a more empathetic species ever alive????

[Heather]

Hopefully the cutting went well....the sweater is awesome and the baby....Holy Smokes! Altho my babies were huge as well and grew fast. Lucky is sure Lucky to have a Mama like you. The pics are so cute!

[Luni]

He's cute! Don't cut him! The sweater, I mean, not the baby. Surely the baby is cute and shouldn't be cut either, tho. not even the dog should be cut. Seriously, I assume you machine stitch it, but I was unaware that yarn other than wool could be steeked. I'd like to see that.