It's Now A FO !

YES ! I have lengthened the sleeves of my February Lady Sweater & it looks great.....

.... one of the ladies in my knitting circle volunteered as a model & it looked great on her. In fact, she likes it so much, she is also going to knit it.

I am so glad that the sleeves were knitted from the top down as frogging it was so easy - just frogged the garter stitch band, picked up the stitches & start knitting ! I added 10cm more to the sleeves & before I started the garter stitch band, I decreased 7 stitches (1 pattern repeat) so that the band is not bell shaped & more in line with the lace pattern. I am so happy with the modification & I love this sweater!

I also want to share with all of you, the lovely scarf that Helen knitted for me .....

...... it's Gust which is knitted with Zen Yarn Garden's cashmere/silk - it's so soft & light & so warm around the neck & of course, Helen did a perfect job ! Thanks so much Helen for this wonderful present !

As I have made a promise not to cast on a new project until I have finished some of my WIPs, I have also made another promise - to be true to 1 WIP (with the exception of socks) at a time ! I think this will help finish off the WIPs faster if I concentrate on just one at a time.

So, I picked up the Pi Shawl which has been left alone for the past few months & started knitting ...

..... the shawl is growing slowly every day as it takes me 20 - 30 minutes to finish one round of 288 stitches. The knitting is also slow as I am using a 2 ply pure silk which is so smooth that handling it is quite difficult. I managed to finish the 45 rounds & last night did the final increase to 576 stitches ...

...... & now I have another 41 rounds to go before I can start on the border. This time, 1 round takes 45 mins - that's 30.8 hours more & I can't imagine how long it will take to knit the border !