An Audacious Plan
I have decided to knit 12 sweaters this year. Or more accurately: I have decided to finish 12 sweaters this year. I love knitting sweaters, but I suffer from that common affliction of rarely finishing my sweaters.
Sleeves are an especially sticking point. I hate to knit sleeves for my sweaters. Therefore I have some sweaters that lack only sleeves.
Case in point:
Started Dec 06 – This sweater is based on this sweater from Katie Knits except that I am doing a higher neck and long sleeves. It may not look it, but it’s done except for the sleeves.
Another example: 
Languishing since May 06 – A sweater in Noro Silkgarden based on Grumperina‘s Picovoli minus sleeves.
But sleeves aren’t my only problem. Sometimes I just randomly start new projects:
Like this one that I started in January, Knitty’s BPT by Rebecca Hatcher. I have no excuse for this. I just really like the pattern, and the color of yarn and I needed something to go with my lighter jacket for spring… Yeah.
and this one:
I call this the Hiking Sweater. It is based on Elizabeth Zimmerman’s Seamless Hybrid (Mmm… hybrid…).
It’s not that I don’t enjoy these projects once I start them, or even that I get bored of them! I just get distracted by the next idea that comes along…
That is… Most of the time:
I’m pretty bored of looking at this (and I’m not even very far on it!). I don’t remember when I started this. I think it was around Dec 05. Sad. One day I would like this to become a tweedy green vest but it may not be in the cards. I think I have enough yarn to rip this out and make a long sleeved sweater in the round instead. I do love the round.
Now there are certainly some unfinished sweaters around here but you may have noticed that there aren’t twelve of them and also they are all at least 1/2-way done!
It doesn’t take me a whole month to knit half a sweater! So the real test of my Audacious Plan (and this is the part that makes it truly audacious!) is one of time management. I want to finish my oldest projects first but I’m saving my mostly finished sweaters for busy months and starting sweaters for unspokenfor months during the less busy months. I do love to make things complicated.
On track:
Rogue Pullover started last August is slated to be the sweater for February.
and look! SLEEVES!
That’s my in-progress round-up. I have a lot of work to do. In the spirit of finishing what I’ve started and having sweaters to wear (it’s cold in Alaska!) I have decided to finish a sweater a month in ’07.
I just love knitting sweaters. Don’t you?
OMG, you can knit hoodies and stuff?! Where do you guys draw the line??? Next thing you know, you’ll probably knit like a new planet into existence and then knit oceans and trees onto it and then all the knitters of the world knit stairways across space to get on the new planet, but because it’s so long, they have to unravel the yarn from behind them to keep knitting the stairway in front of them, so nobody except the knitters can go there, and then when you all get there you knit a new galaxy around it or something, and don’t worry, you can knit puppies and kittens to keep you company on your knew plaknit (get it? pla-knit?). But be careful, because did you know that some physicists think it’s possible that the ‘laws of physics’ as we know them actually only apply to our little corner of space, and that in other areas of the universe, different laws govern? Sheesh.
I presume you’ve joined the Sweater a Month KAL…welcome! I’ve finished two already and have a headstart on March.
Your stuff looks great! Really like that Rogue…
Weren’t you remarking that it was funny that our tastes in sweaters overlap? I’ve made a Rogue and Picovoli, and have the KatieKnits sweater on my list for summer.
Your version of the Rebecca Hatcher sweater is shaping up really nicely. The yarn she used on her sweater was a huge turnoff for me, as was the cropped length, so I never considered making it. Might have to bump it to the “maybe” list now.
Good luck on 12 months of sweaters!
How hard is the rogue to you? I really want to do that sweater too. But I keep putting it off.
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