12/10/15 After two and a half months of wearing this, swearing I would take it off long enough to block it eventually, I’m declaring it officially done. I am so in love with this piece. I wear it every day. I get admiring comments on it from total strangers. I will probably never block it, and I need to just admit that. It’s huge and I can’t get a decent picture of it to save my life. It’s not at all how I imagined it would turn out, but it’s absolutely perfect and I am only sad I live somewhere where it gets hot for half the year so I will eventually be forced to take it off.
9/22 part 2: I just wove in allllll the ends! It wasn’t too bad, actually. Just needs a gentle blocking and then it will be 100% done!
9/22/15 Started working on it again two days ago (well, really about 36 hours) and just finished casting off! I lurves it!
9/13/15 Still plugging away! I had to order one more skein of dark grey to finish it up, so I’m waiting on that before I can go any farther.
9/4/15 I’m well into the garter ridge stripe section. I’m adding rows with abandon. I really do want this to be a giant! I just added the third color (dark grey). I am enamored with the whole thing.
9/2/15 I’ve used up one skein of the charcoal so far. I am adding extra repeats as I go so that it will be giant! Specifically, I added one repeat of section 1 for each for the beginning (14/6/6/6). Well, I’m only up to the second 6 so far, but that’s the plan.
8/31/15 I’ve only just cast on and done about the first fifty rows or so, but I already love this. I’m planning on making it a little extra giant so that it’s versatile. I love the pattern, I love the colors I’ve picked, and I love that I’m putting time and energy into something for myself.
I got this pattern a couple of weeks ago. I posted on Mairlynd’s weekly topic and my post was selected at random as that week’s winner. I got to choose a free pattern, and this was it. From the first time I looked at it, I loved it.