{"id":407,"date":"2004-10-15T12:20:00","date_gmt":"2004-10-15T16:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/?p=407"},"modified":"2004-10-15T12:20:00","modified_gmt":"2004-10-15T16:20:00","slug":"finito","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/?p=407","title":{"rendered":"Finito!"},"content":{"rendered":"

At last, I have finished the Cotton Roll sweater.<\/a> Whee! Here it is!<\/a> My daughter picked out the Lego buttons.<\/p>\n

This is my first finished sweater and I think it shows. The seams under the arms (the first ones I did on the shirt) are a lot less neat than the ones along the sides, but I don’t think you’d notice unless you were looking closely. In retrospect, I also wish I’d blocked it before I put it together, but c’est la vie. I’m chalking it up to a learning experience.<\/p>\n

Early on, this sweater was way too short<\/a>. Like, Britney Spears short. Not really what you’re looking for in a toddler boy’s sweater. So I had to rip out and put in about ten more rows. Then, of course, I ran out of yarn thiiiiis close to being done with the second sleeve. However, I wasn’t expecting it all to go perfectly, and feel that this experience will prepare me better for the next closed finished garment I may make.<\/p>\n

I also learned that I just don’t like Manos cotton stria<\/a>. It felt great and looked great on the hank, but it just feels limp when I’m working with it. I have rough hands and it snags on my fingertips. The Knitter’s Review had a review of this yarn<\/a> mentioning its issues, which of course I read *after* buying the yarn. Another lesson learned! However, the ridged pattern of the sweater makes it feel kind of cushy, so that’s good.<\/p>\n

This will go to my daughter’s kindergarten teacher. She has a 16-month-old son. This woman is very good at working to integrate my daughter into the classroom. She’s never dealt with an autistic or PDD-NOS<\/a> child before, but she’s learned so much that she’ll be giving a talk at a conference on Monday. Now that’s dedication! She’s keeping notes on everything she learns so that she can make a book for other teachers in the same boat. We really, really got lucky with her, and I wanted to put a lot of effort into something for her, since she’s putting so much effort into my child.<\/p>\n

All in all, I absolutely could not be prouder of this sweater, and I can’t wait to give it to her. There’s enough yarn left to make a matching hat, too! The cotton isn’t the best choice for that, but hey, I gotta use up this stuff somehow, and I’m on a roll!<\/p>\n

To dreeeeaaammm…. the impossible dreeeaaammm…..<\/p>\n

(Crossposted to knitting and my own journal.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[37,49],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}