Back on track

I had to rest my mom's Christmas cardi because I had a couple of projects on deadlines I had to finish. Let me tell you, it was absolutely painful not being able to work on it!
The two projects were some hand warmers for my friend and another scull and crossbones sweater my BIL's mother ordered from me. I gave a sweater like that to my nephew, she saw it, fell in love with it and asked if I could make another one.

So I did... it's certainly not a difficult project, a simple top down raglan that took me around 15 hours to make. But it's soooo booooring! I had a hard time staying awake while making it, there's no challenge in it whatsoever. I hate, hate, hate projects that get me bored with knitting. I knew this before starting the sweater, the first one was every bit as boring. But I could hardly say no when she asked me for it... But the sweater is ready, washed and dried and just waiting to get picked up. Nice.

So I'm back with the cardigan, at last. I'm half way through the second sleeve, can't wait to join my pieces and start the raglany stuff. My only fear is that it will all be over too soon. I've really loved this project.

Christmas knitting and then sum...

I started knitting the Christmas presents last month. Better start early! I've made the present for my younger sister and now I'm working on a sweater for my mother. It's the first time I ever make a full-size sweater, all my sweaters so far have been baby sweaters. I feel so good while knitting this for my mom, in a way I feel like I'm weaving love into every stitch. She lives a couple of hours away from me and I don't see her all the time so I'd like to think that when she wears it, it'll be like she's getting a hug from me. *awwww*

I have to say, it's a lot easier than I ever imagined to make a grown up sweater. I'm already hard at work thinking of all the sweaters I'm going to knit when I finish this one. The next one will be for my father. Haha what a sweatery Christmas it will be!
Anyway, the 'mom-sweater' is turning out extremely well and I'm so happy with the pattern choice. It's even going much faster than I thought, I started it March 31st and I'm guessing I'll have finished it in a weeks time or so. I'm also following a huge, American pattern for the first time and never did I think it would be this easy!
BTW you can find it here, check it out.

Here's a closeup of the back piece:



My other projects are resting at the moment, I had to frog a little bit of the burning cool sweater but nothing catastrophic. I'm just loving my mom's sweater too much to put it down. I guess my old promise to myself to never start a project without having finished the last one is pretty much out the window, huh...

The felted bag is also taking a long nap, I have finished the shoulder strap though but haven't gotten around to buying a felting needle to do the finishing. It seems that all the stores that would sell such a thing are way downtown and I'd preferably have to get paid to go there.