Paddling Out to Sleeve Island
I'm afraid I don't have much to show for myself this evening. Work kept me away from KIP-ing and a husband who wanted to actually turn out the lights while we watched some of our favorite TV shows kept me from seaming up the capelet. To be fair, watching TV does involve his home theatre, a projector and a very nice screen, and he has installed some smaller lights so that I can knit and watch while he enjoys his audio-visual experience to the fullest. But it does limit what I can get done.
Fortunately, the sleeves of Fitzgerald (actually, any part of Fitzgerald) don't require much light or much thought and are a good project for a darkened room.
Gotta love sleeves for a manly sweater. You can knit and knit and knit and knit and still feel like you will be knitting sleeves forever. Fortunately, I've only got three or four inches to go on this one. A good thing, since there are only very few days of the year that it gets cold enough for John to actually want to wear a sweater, so I need to get cracking if I want to see him in it once or twice before spring.
Besides... John is telling me that he wants a pair of socks out of some very interesting yarn he was reading about. Who needs a bulletproof vest when you can have bulletproof foot protection!
Totally know what you mean about sleeves. Kind of like driving through Texas. You keep on going thinking you're almost done but you're still there. lol. It's looking great though!
I'd like a pair of those bulletproof socks to go with my gecko gloves -
http://news.man.ac.uk/1054290245/index_html
Just imagine what you could get up to!
The mind boggles! James Bond eat your heart out.
ohhh you caught up with me! I am in EXACTLY the same place on fiztz, 3 inches to go on sleeve #1.
I have neve done a collar before and I changed all the measurments so I'm worried about getting to that part, but maybe I'll work on the sleeves this weekend so you don't get to far ahead of me :)
Cool--but what about warmth and "moisture management" not to mention washability regarding those socks. I want to know what "E" used for the Incredibles' suits as I head into winter with 3 small children.
Um. Looks like you'll need 0000000 needles.
Would bullet-proof also mean heat-proof? I see oven mitt possibilities. Or bedsocks for those blessed with new kittens. Those owned by new kittens will know what I mean.
John is totally on target with the nanofiber yarn technology - just think, if it works out, then we could get the government to subsidize our yarn purchases, because we can claim them to be anti-terrorist! :)