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A wet and rainy Hand Knit Friday morning is perfect for a sweater. What hand knits are you wearing today?


Threepenny Pullover
Project details on Ravelry

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It's a rainy Hand Knit Friday in the parched Bay Area, and that's perfect weather for a sweater. What hand knits are you wearing today?


Threepenny Pullover
Project details on Ravelry

HKF

It's Hand Knit Friday! What hand knits do you have on today?

I'm wearing


Threepenny Pullover
Project details on Ravelry

and


Goldilocks Clog socks
Free knitting pattern

HKF

It's Hand Knit Friday! What hand knits do you have on today?

I'm wearing


Threepenny Pullover
Project details on Ravelry

HKF

It's hand knit Friday! What hand knits do you have on today?

I'm wearing


Zigzag sweater
Project details on Ravelry

and


Dye-o-rama Socks
Project details on Ravelry

HKF

It's the first Hand Knit Friday of 2011! What hand knits do you have on today?

I'm wearing

Threepenny Pullover
Project details on Ravelry


Dye-o-rama Socks
Project details on Ravelry

HKF

It's Hand Knit Friday! What hand knits do you have on today?

I'm wearing

Zig Zag
Project details on Ravelry


Crystalline Lattice socks
Project details on Ravelry

HKF

It's Hand Knit Friday! What hand knits do you have on today?

I'm wearing

Threepenny Pullover
Project details on Ravelry


Pomatomus Socks
Project details on Ravelry

HKF

It's Hand Knit Friday!

I'm wearing

Zig Zag
Project details on Ravelry


Mars Mission Handspun Socks
Project details on Ravelry

What hand knits are you wearing today?

FO: Threepenny Pullover

Yesterday, 1084 days [or 154 weeks and 6 days, or 2 years and 354 days] after it was cast-on, my oldest WIP was finished.


Threepenny Pullover
Yarn: Valley Yarns 2/8 Merino Cashmere, doubled. 589 gms total = 2600 yds.
Needles: US5 / 3.75 mm
Pattern: Threepenny Pullover by Veronik Avery, Interweave Knits, Fall 2004

I was motivated by the Best of Interweave Knits KAL starting in October. I wasn't going to be happy if my poor Threepenny was still sitting in a box while knitters all over the world cast-on and finished theirs. ;-)


Cable trim at the neckline, down the sleeves, and at the hem & wrists.


Stitch detail

I love the signature VA texture and the details... but the yarn that I chose was unpleasant to knit with and that slowed me down. Then the sewing up--and finishing isn't something that I normally stall on--the sewing up required a good deal of attention. Being a knit-picking perfectionist really didn't help. I kept attaching, removing, and re-attaching the cable trim because the I wanted the left & right sides to match.

Last night I was determined to focus on this sweater and this sweater alone. Hey, I have a new sweater waiting in the wings when the weather cools down. Awesome!

Here's how it all started. It seems like only 1084 days ago.