After DH took my pictures in the finished brown sweater so I could post them on the February Is for Finishing KAL, I strutted around for a while feeling pretty good that one of my four UFOs was finished.
The pattern was in IK, Fall 1997, and it is by Nancy Bush. This is hard issue to find because it also has one of Alice Starmore's Arans in it, but it is a very nice design. I particularly like the way the shoulder pattern looks. Even though the body is a roomy rectangle, the sailor's rib is broken up with a small K-P pattern that looks as if it is the top of the sleeve. And you pickup the stitches at the top of the sleeve and knit to the cuff, so there is no seam around the armhole. The yarn is Rowan Magpie, and I used Inox greys in sizes 5 and 7 US.
But when I announced to DH that I only had three UFOs left, he asked if that number included his green sweater. I told him that his sweater was not a UFO because it was only swatched, and there is no "o" in swatch! In my opinion, the garment has to be "on the needles" for it to be a UFO, and swatching is not "on the needles". And if swatches do count as UFOs, then I probably have about twenty UFOs. The only way to win this argument is to get his sweater done, which I think was the real point of this conversation.
Not that it will matter to him, but do you think that if you swatch for a sweater or anything else, you've now got a UFO?
I like the sweater, especially the stitch pattern and color. I agree that a swatch is most definitely not a UFO!
Posted by: Robin | February 25, 2007 at 07:00 PM
Absolutely beautiful. And a marvelous fit. I'm sorry, but your husband is just wrong! Something cannot be a UFO until it's "started" and a swatch is definitely not starting. It's experimenting.
Posted by: Dorothy | February 26, 2007 at 09:39 AM
Beautiful! Everything about that one is perfect.
And, good grief, no. A swatch is just playing around with yarn and needles, and most definitely NOT a UFO.
Posted by: Lorette | February 27, 2007 at 07:22 PM