One Week Sweater Knitting Challenge

As predicted, I wasn't able to complete the challenge. I just got the body of the cardigan done. I love the color combination - don't you think it's cool?

I still have the sleeves to be completed, which I think I'd pick up only tomorrow. I couldn't knit it today as I developed shoulder pain on the final day. As I mentioned before, I somehow developed this stupid habit of bunching my shoulders up which put strain on my shoulders and sometimes on my pectoral muscles. I am working hard to unlearn this habit but I somehow do it when I knit unconsciously watching something. I hope I learn not to do this soon, because it really affects my muscles and in turn slows down my knitting... I slowly cast off the bottom trying not to strain myself. Now that the pain has eased, I hope to pick it up tomorrow and hopefully complete it in two days. I'll keep you posted.

One Week Sweater Knitting Challenge - Penultimate Day

Well, it's almost clear that I am not going to be able to complete this challenge within the time but let me see how long it extends. Here's what I have completed till now. I have at least 3 more inches to go, plus the border, aaaaaand the sleeves.

As if this challenge wasn't enough I was tempted to introduced a teenie cable pattern at the back. I recently learned to do this closed cable after what seemed like ages. I've been trying to do this closed cable for long, but I just couldn't get the M1, M3, M1 (M3 is the make three stitch thingy - can't remember the abbreviation for that). I realized that I was knitting too tight (the reason why I developed shoulder pain) that making this 5 stitch increase from 1 stitch was almost impossible.

Every time, I'd somehow manage to do the M1, M3, but the next M1 seems almost not possible. Recently I started a new scarf and tried the closed cable again and this time I was successful at it. I was so excited that I just had to try that in a real project so I did. As my blog title suggests, I just LOVE cables. If it were possible, I'd love to just knit cables all over a sweater. In fact that'd be my next project. I am already working on my own cable pattern swatch and hopefully, I start that soon. Wish me luck again. Hope this Lazy Knitter shrugs off his laziness some while the winter lasts.