It’s not easy being green

Some of you have been asking what I decided to do about the green Lark sweater, the one made with potentially cursed yarn. I decided to just plow ahead and see what happens. If the sweater is too big for me, I’ll find someone else for it. I just don’t want to face this yarn a third time. Here are the sweater fronts as I begin blocking:

And here they are after much smoothing and fretting:

These didn’t seem quite as big as the sweater back. Maybe I subconsciously knit a bit tighter? But they are still bigger than their specifications:

I decided to make the neckbands next before moving on to the sleeves. Here we go:

You can see what a huge difference the blocking will make for this lace pattern (that’s my swatch on top in the above photo). Here they are pinned out to block. I worked these in two sections that will be grafted behind the neck (stitches are still live on the far end of the photo below) so that the pattern will be oriented the same way on both front edges:

And here’s a shot without the pins:

I’m currently working on Sleeve #1.

In other green knitting, I have been working on this fingering weight hat since mid-January. Fingering weight lace is slow going! I can’t work on it during meetings… it’s strictly an at-home project.

The pattern is Cannetella by Woolly Wormhead. You should click through to see what a finished version looks like, because this unblocked lace looks terrible. I modified the brim – you can probably tell that I intend to fold it under and have a double thickness of fabric around my forehead.