First off, Happy Valentine’s Day!

Okay, good. Now that that’s out of the way, I can say thanks to everyone who sent their well wishes while I was sick and specials thanks to those of you who reminded me that February is a short month and will be over sooner rather than later. 🙂

Onward to knitting… I had mentioned before that I was trying my hand at a simple st st vee neck sweater using the instructions in Barbara Walker’s Knitting from the Top. But, I didn’t really saying anything else about it even after prodding by blog readers. So, today’s the day. It’s a plain st st cause I used to have some basic store bought sweaters that I loved so much the elbows disintegrated. I couldn’t patch them, cause there was nothing left to patch. I decided to go with a vee neck to be different from the last couple sweaters I’ve done, which were all crewnecks. I’m knitting it out of Heirloom Yarns Heatherwood in a sage green color.

I cast on the back shoulders with great trepidation and porceeded into the short rows. As I got to the armpits of the back, I tried to figure out what to do next (I didn’t have the book with me) and did a sort of reverse engineering from a bottom up sweater. After reading the directions in the book I realized I was completely wrong and ended up tearing my armpits out and doing it Barbara’s way. Then, I picked up the front and did the short rows, knitting ever downward, working in the neckline increases.

Then, I joined the front and the back. I was making progress. I could begin to admire my handy work. I love the short row shoulders! It was beginning to look like a sweater. This is, of course, when it got extremely boring. All knit, all the time. So, I did what any knitter in my place would do, I cast on a sock.