A River of Beauty

I worked on my oh so beautiful River Elton sweater yesterday.  All I can say is O.M.G. This is going to be such a stunning sweater and I cannot wait to wear it.

I got to the point where I finished the last of the mohair stripes and have this much left of the giant skein of Fleece Artist Zambezi.  

This was such a wonderful thing to knit with.

I am at the end of the sleeve cuff and all I need to do is to bind off the folded hem.

This is everything that is left of the second skein of  Adam and Eve in the delicious River colourway.  I still have the front buttonband and the neckband left to knit so I will likely have to break into ball three but considering that I started with five skeins of yarn, I am not worried.   

In fact, even without weighing the yarns remaining in the skein of Zambezi, I am pretty certain that I could make a sweater for Luda very similar to this one. There appears to be at least a third of the Zambezi left and with three skeins of Adam and Eve remaining, a striped sweater is surely possible. The design is not her style though, so I will put my knitting  time for her into the lovely Silver Adam and Eve I have for a sweater in a style she likes, knit together with a simple white mohair.  

I have a bit more work left on the River Elton sweater though.  I am probably going to redo the hem.  There are parts of the hem that are a bit wonky.  As I bound off, I must have picked up wrong stitches and in a certain section, the rib pulls sideways. I might let something like that go on occasion and just wear it as is, but this thing is just too pretty not to have it be right in every way.