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| Honeycomb Sweater |
My Honeycomb Sweater is no longer a sweater.
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| from sweater to pillow |
I bit the big gauge bullet this morning and the sweater is now a pillow.
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| Honeycomb Pillow |
I'll admit, I shed a tiny tear when I took that first stitch with the sewing needle. I really, really like the Honeycomb sweater pattern and I hated to give up on it. I'm also not (more like NOT) happy about the recent weight gain but even without the extra weight, the sweater wasn't going to fit. I knew it last year when I was actively knitting the sweater. I just didn't want to admit it.
Anyway, I'm now the proud owner of a Honeycomb pillow. I decided to leave the waistband ribbing on when I was sewing it. It's a permanent reminder to check my gauge and that while blocking can perform magic, blocking will never make me a size 2. I have to admit, as much as I hated giving up on the sweater turning it into a pillow and checking it off my To-Do list was fairly exhilarating. It feels like a giant load has been lifted from my shoulders. I think that I may have spent the past year subconsciously worrying and stressing about the fit of the sweater. It feels terrific to have it done, even if 'done' means it's a pillow instead of a sweater.
My only worry now is, what shall I knit with the gazillion leftover skeins of Dove gray yarn?
I'm linking up with Frontier Dreams for today's #CraftingOn.
What a clever way to salvage all that knitting! The sweater-pillow looks GREAT. (And I imagine you'll have no trouble figuring out another project for that yarn.) :-)
ReplyDeleteThanks! I hope you're right about the left over yarn. No body needs that many gray hats! (Hats are my go-to, I can't be bothered to decide what to use this yarn for project.)
DeleteI LOVE the pillow! I've toyed with the idea of knitting a pillow and now I may have to. I'm sure you will find a project for the other skeins!!
ReplyDeleteThanks! I'm very pleased with the way it turned out. I just hope I don't end up turning every future sweater into a pillow. :)
DeleteIt's beautiful! I have a pattern for a real knit pillow that I am thinking I need to just get on and knit it!
ReplyDeleteThanks! I have a few pillow patterns on the Someday list that may get moved to the To-Do list so that this one won't be so lonely.
DeleteI love the pillow it is beautiful, so glad you could find someway to use what you had knitted, rather than unravelling it all.
ReplyDeleteThanks! I'm very happy that I was able to do something with the sweater. No matter how bad the fit, I don't think I'd have had the heart to frog it.
ReplyDeleteIt looks beautiful as a pillow!!!
ReplyDeleteLosing the sweater is sad, but if it won't fit it's no use saving it. I love the pillow, a great way to show off that beautiful honeycomb design.
ReplyDeleteWhat to do with the rest of the yarn? Well, I would use it to knit hats... ;-)
I can see me finishing 2018 out with 48 gray hats (because I had 4 done before the sweater/pillow ordeal.) It could actually be very fitting with my name.
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