FINISHING Friday
Drum roll please................... The cowl neck sweater is DONE!!!!!!!!! It should have been finished quite some time ago, but this stopped me. Nope--it is NOT a ribbon loin cloth, in spite of what it looks like. It is the original cowl neck. which I think looked pretty dopey. It was possible to stretch & stretch the neck into being a bit more rounded, and I seriously debated about making myself go through the hassle of mangling it every time I wanted to wear it, or to grow a spine and just fix the darn thing. Since the sweater has been languishing in the WIP pile for quite some time, you can see what a difficult debate this was. Blame it on the short rows--which in general I think are just darn clever. Tinking them, however, is about as much fun as elective root canal without anesthesia. I decided to watch some old sewing television shows I had taped (back before the digital conversion stopped me from even knowing how to operate n...