Just Cinch It!

So I completed this sweater and I knew it was big as soon as I finished it, but I had hoped that blocking would help. Unfortunately it did not. I tried it on and it appears to be perfect for a person about two rungs up on the size scale from me. Hmm...I think this will be okay because parts of me are about to scale up thanks to the baby boy hiding in my belly but it still kind of droops and sags in a weird way. The pattern calls for putting in hook and eye closures to keep the front together invisibly and I'm not a big fan of adding them to knitting. What to do?

Just cinch it!

I think a belt is the answer. The pattern has a lovely reversible cable on the plackets that I can adapt to make a nice matching belt, and I think that it will afford me the flexibility I need while camouflaging the largeness of the sweater. BRILLIANT! I'll keep you posted on the outcome. Sometimes my great ideas are much better in my imagination than in reality. :)

Hmmm...

I finished my sweater and I find myself with no big projects to work on. This doesn't happen very frequently and I'm kind of lost. I started some socks but those don't count as a real project. Socks are filler they're what you work on when you don't want to figure out how you got that extra stitch in the cable pattern five rows ago. Usually when I'm in this situation I have a million ideas about things I want to try or items I need (mittens) but this time nothing interests me. Hmmm...what to do. I think I had better take a good look at my yarn and see what I've got. Looking at the yarn always gives me ideas, plus I just like looking at it.