The sweater is finished!
And, if the tracking on the package can be believed, it will arrive at my brother's house in Ohio today. Just in time for my brother's birthday. Today.
(I ordered my brother's birthday gift a while ago with the intention of mailing it along with eldest nephew's Christmas present. I cut that real close.)
I finished it late Tuesday night. I packaged it all up Wednesday after work, and then Thursday after work I dropped it off at the post office. As I write this Sunday evening, the tracking says the box is in Columbus, Ohio. Which is the closest distribution center to them.
(The closest distribution center to me is Los Angeles. If a package for me is in LA by, like, 3 AM, I will have that package that day. That's why I'm not hedging in saying that my brother is getting this today. Save for some wackadoodle occurrence.)
Phew. That only took me eight months. Not bad, really.
April starts in a couple days, and you may have noticed I added the A to Z Challenge image in the sidebar. Yes, I'll be on the A to Z thing. I haven't mentioned this earlier as you won't really notice much of a change around here. I don't do a theme. My game is to fit what I'd normally post to the letter of the day.
As of this writing, I've got A and D done for this week and I've got a pretty good idea what B and C will be. And yes, I will continue to scream into the void on Tuesdays (read: write about current events). X falls on a Tuesday this year. I don't know how I'm going to make that work, but I will, somehow. That's a problem for me in a couple weeks.
And somehow, my yarn-y post for next week will begin with the letter E. How? I have no idea yet. You'll have to visit me to find out.
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
- Some Assembly Required
- Missed Winter
- Seamingly On Track
- Just the Collar
Jamie here: Looks great!
ReplyDeleteThanks.
DeleteIt looks great!
ReplyDeleteThanks.
DeleteGood for you getting it done on time, and it's beautiful! I hope it gets there today.
ReplyDeleteIt fits him perfectly. (I just got a picture of nephew in the sweater.)
DeleteApplauding. I knew you would do it!
ReplyDeleteThanks.
DeleteNice to see you are doing A to Z. Will you be knitting something elegant for E? Or, something for the evening? I have my posts for A thru F completed. I really have to get more posts done in advance. It’s not going to be my best effort ever, but it will get done.
ReplyDeleteI have no idea. I have a beanie in progress. And I just got a picture of eldest nephew in this sweater. How can I tie those together with a word that starts with E? DUH! Eldest nephew!!!
DeleteThe sweater looks beautiful! You are so talented. Looking forward to your A-to-Z posts. Starts now to knit a xylophone or a xeme, or a xerus, or a xebec, so you'll have it for the X 😁
ReplyDeleteOh, I've done X knits in the past. I made a scarf in an X-shape specifically for the challenge one year. 2014. X doesn't fall on a Monday this year, though.
DeleteThe sweater came out so nice.
ReplyDeleteCongratulations! It looks nice, and what perfect timing.
ReplyDeleteYou couldn't have timed it better. Well done.
ReplyDeleteGood luck with the Challenge. I don't scream online though because you're right, it's to a void.