Sweater Repair

I’m sure long time readers remember my original Ginny Cardigan. If you don’t I’ll wait while you go look at the pictures of me standing in my mom’s downstairs bathroom wearing said cardigan.

Are you back now? Good. I’m sure more recently you remember that I cast on a second one. Well, what happened to the first one?

Back in January I had to stop wearing my original sweater. One of the cuffs had given way and a dropped stitch in the ribbing was the result.

So this morning I finally got off my butt, picked up the sweater from where I’d tossed it in our second bedroom and dug the leftover yarn out of stash. Time for repairs.

After fixing the laddered cuff, I realized that both cuffs were ready to go in more than one place.

See that? Yeah, that’s a frayed edge right there. Apparently the stretchy cast on I used to give the cuffs the, well, stretch, they needed turned out to not be sturdy enough to take a year of at least weekly wear. It doesn’t help that I’m constantly rubbing my wrists on things. They keyboard when I type, along the couch when I reach for something, the list goes on of what your wrist and the heel of your palm touches every day.

So I took that leftover yarn, cut a long piece and whip stitched completely around both cuffs to give them some extra support (before another stitch gave) and wove in the ends. A perfectly ready to wear cardigan is a result.

Now if I’d only gotten off my butt and done that two months ago.

 

PS: I’m getting my wheel on Sunday! I’m getting excited! Gotta finish up Passover first though. Yizkor (memorial service) is in the morning and then at sunset tomorrow, it’s all done. I think I’m gonna have a nice big bowl of real pasta.

Not much cleaning. But there was cooking!

Last night marked the start of Passover. Cue not being able to eat any and all bread products for the next week. It’s not as bad as it seems. Especially with how many grain and gluten free foods are available these days. Though I will say, having to eat like this all the time would stink. I don’t mean to offend anyone that has a gluten allergy or Celiac disease. But I don’t have either of those. Passover certainly gives me a taste of what it’s like to have them though!

Yes, I’m still working on my room. Yesterday didn’t lend itself to much cleaning however. I did manage to do about a 1/3 of the laundry that needed to be done and there’s another 1/3 in the dryer right now. And I’ll do the remainder when I get back from my knitting group.

So what was I doing yesterday? Well, other than the laundry, I had lunch with friends, then dropped off the finished test knit at the designers house (pictures to come when pattern is released), then I spend the afternoon cooking dinner for my mom and I’s seder dinner. We did a short seder, but we still did one. We decided not to go to the synagogues one which lead to us doing our own.

Matzo ball in the pot on the left. Gefilte Fish in the pot on the right and chicken in the oven.

So I was in charge of the cooking since my mom wasn’t home to do it.

I don’t do large amounts of cooking often so it was nice to know that my mom thought everything came out well.

And just to prove that I am still knitting and this is still a knitting blog, I’ve been working on my Sockhead Hat that I have on the needles.

PS: It’s very hard to write a blog post when your cat is rubbing all over the desk between you and the laptop.

And all three of the cats are in my room to boot! There’s the whole house and all three of them have to be with me. Figures.