Aside from the zipper (which I still haven't purchased, but did receive recommendations of places where I might be able to find one), my sweater is finished. (There is also still debate about whether I want to buy another ~30 packs of Kool Aid to over dye the sweater.)

From Knitted Objects

My mom commented last night that everytime she's ever seen a fisherman knit style sweater, she assumed it had taken the knitter at least a year. This took me about half a month, so she has revised that to figure that they just must all be knit by crazy fast (unemployed) knitters like me.

From Knitted Objects

I love this sweater. I fell in love with it months ago, when I had no job, and no yarn to knit it with (despite the absurdly large yarn stash). I thought about it for months and months, and then one morning, while temping, I woke up and decided I needed to make it. I needed to make a sweater. I needed cables. I missed Knit Happens intensely, and realized that I didn't have a new yarn store here that I knew I could go into and find the yarn I needed to make the sweater. And so, I ordered the yarn online, having determined from Ravelry that many people were using Cascade Eco, and bought it. I didn't think I liked the colors that it came in pre-dyed, so I decided to dye it myself. It sucked up dye. On the three skeins of yarn that went into the sweater, there are 71 packets of Kool Aid (it was meant to be 72, but in the morning I found one that I forgot to put in). It was (basically) equal parts Cherry, Tropical Punch, and Black Cherry (because there was no grape, and it needed to be darker). And then I learned that my biggest pot wasn't big enough. I went on a pot hunt, I borrowed a large lobster pot from a friend, which was also not large enough, and wound up buying an even bigger pot from the Evil Store (Walmart). I cast on right after my last temp job ended. I wove in the ends yesterday.

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