Finishing the things you put off.

Squishy Friday edges or not, I.  HAD. A. WEEKEND.  With no squishy edges.  I found out that my brother was passing through and was going to stay over Saturday and Sunday night.  That gave me the perfect reason to force myself to finish fixing my sisters sweater, the Flea sweater so he could deliver it to her.  

First things, first.

 

I needed to take off the generous amount I add to the side so garments fit me nicely.  I marked out the columns of stitches I wanted to remove.

Then a basic mattress stitch to make the new side seam before putting in the reinforcing for steeking out the excess.  

And there you go.  A pretty good seam if I do say so.  

And a nice straight side to fit my sister.  

Then it was time to deal with the sleeves.  When I make sleeves for me, I do 3/4 sleeves most of the time. That means a short fairly severely decreased sleeve.  It works for me and how I use sweaters.   My sister wears a sweater for cozy relaxation.  Picture her snuggling her hands in the cuffs and sipping cocoa while watching a good movie. The sleeves needed more length.

I pulled off the cuffs and added the last two colour sections as per the body and redid the cuffs.  I am pretty pleased with how it turned out.

Not that I did not have issues.  I was going to do a felted steek to get rid of the excess, but broke my needles because I did not have the tool properly opened.  I did a sewn steek and I think it will be OK.  

Much worse was finding the four balls of yarn to make the sleeves longer.  I had the bag with all the yarn right here beside me.  Or was it?  No.  I figured I put the yarn away in the Pallette box when I did not need it for my sleeves.  I pulled out the bin and dug.  No navy and blue. No brindle and celadon.  Oh oh.  I came back out and feverishly dug into the palette bag in the livingroom.  I was starting to panic.  Feverish digging never helps. Eventually I did find the navy and blue and I pulled out the extra ball of brindle from the stash box.  I had no second ball of green.  I have a feeling it went into the box of yarn I sent out last week.  I did find an option for the green and while not perfect, it will do.

    

The double green rows on the body are a warmer green and what I found for the sleeves are a cooler blue green.  Because the areas are separate, I don't think it will be too noticeable.  

To top it off, Cassie came to do a try on for her sweater.  It fits just right and we measured for sweater length and sleeve length.  

This week's job is to get her sweater finished and to get back to work on my own Lusk.  Pretty blue and white is calling to me.