Just Nicky

Stripes September 19, 2006

I finished Finn’s jumper yesterday afternoon/evening. I avoided the neck pain and headache, I think, by knitting in small bursts of 40 minutes (the length of an ER episode) and making sure I was moving around in between. I cast off too tightly on the neck, so I pulled out the last couple of rows this morning and redid them on slightly larger needles.

I intended the jumper to look kind of rough and ready and I think I’ve succeeded on that front, although the holey bits around the neck are just a result of my poor work knitting up the stitches. It’s huge on Finn because it’s a size 5/6. I’m hoping this will give him years of wear out of it.

Finn seems to like it, although it’s a bit hard to tell through his obsession with the ‘wobot game’ - the new Star Wars Lego Playstation game - that he and Mark are playing at the moment.