Some Assembly Required

Sleeve two is finished!

While the pattern told me the piece needed to be twenty inches long, I had already knit one sleeve, and I noted how many rows of that I knit to get to the twenty inches. 

I almost finished it Wednesday night, but it got late, and I was tired. So, Thursday night I knew I needed to knit two rows and then bind off. And done!

Well, not quite... 

Then Saturday I knit the ribbings onto the bottom of both sleeves. 

And so, now, officially, the knitting of the piece is (almost) done. All that's left is to sew it all together. 

Which is going to take some time. Yeah, just when you thought I was done... 

First shoulder seams. Then the sleeves. Then all the way up from the bottom seam to the end of the sleeve. Using mattress stitch. It's not hard. I will want to take my time to make sure it all stitches up nicely. No use doing all this knitting to have a mess in the end because I rushed the seaming. 

Then, once that is done, I have one last bit of knitting to do. The collar. 

But that's only after I'm finished seaming. 

I'm close. I'm very close. 

The sweater's previous posts:

• Starting the Sweater
• Getting to the Back
• Missed Deadline
• Distractions from Knitting
• A Month Late
• Inching Along
• Tracking the Growth
• Weekly Sweater Update
• Moving Right Along
• Good Progress
• Almost to the Interesting Part
• Plot Twist
• Not Worth the Effort
• Sleeve Progress
• Continuing Sleeve One
• Sleeve Two!
• Continuing Sleeve Two
• Setting a Deadline
• Almost There
• How I Keep Track