SOMEWHERE OVER THE RAINBOW
Sound the bugles. Raise the flags. A major knitting landmark has occurred in the ongoing history of my personal knitting saga.
The Rainbow Jacket is done. Every. Last. Stitch.
Here I am at Threadbear on Wednesday afternoon, knitting the very last stitch. Trumpets? Where were the blaring trumpets? Violins? At the very least, strolling violinists should have surrounded me. Drum rolls….I swear I could hear the drum rolls.
Work still remains. There are seams to be seamed, a few more ends to be woven in. Blocking must occur. A decision about closures, if any, needs to be made. Twiggy did get to model the rough draft of the finished jacket, and I do think it makes Twiggy look quite jaunty.
Ms. Twig even looks good from the rear view!
Now that the seven long months are behind me, I can be more cavalier about the length of time it took to make this jacket. After all, I didn’t get serious about it during the first two months. And in the Threadbear group, Karen is feeling pretty special about being near completion of her very first sweater, a year and a half in the making. Jean is very near the steeking point of a fair isle sweater that she started three years ago. (Jean's in the photo above. You can see that gorgeous sweater in her lap.) What’s seven months in the giant scheme of knitting things?
Decisions have already been made about what’s next, but that’s for another post. Today is for celebrating the pots of gold at the end of the Rainbow.
Wonderful!
Posted by: Gina | 03/21/2008 at 08:07 AM
I am sooo glad I washed my hair so I could look not so under the weather in your photo!! It looks loverly and I'm looking forward to seeing you wear it next week. I might be in the final stages of that steek stuff and in need of serious moral(morale?) support to do the cutting!
Posted by: Blogless Jean | 03/21/2008 at 10:12 AM
is steeking immoral? damn even knitters can get in trouble.
i love that jacket, sharon, it makes me want to work on my long put away jacket. i have decided that will be my recovery-from-knee-arthroscopy project. 2 weeks should make a good dent.
Posted by: dirty sue | 03/21/2008 at 10:20 AM
Lovely!
Posted by: ann kauffold | 03/21/2008 at 10:33 AM
Oh Sharon, it's a masterpiece! When you put the closures on it and it's ready to wear, please have someone take a nice photo of you wearing it and post it to the blog!
Posted by: blogdog | 03/21/2008 at 11:18 AM
Wonderful! Time for a short-term project as an instant-gratification reward.
Posted by: LynnH | 03/21/2008 at 12:23 PM
It's so pretty - I'm sad to say I think I underestimated the loveliness of the Rainbow jacket as a WIP...never again!
Posted by: Donna | 03/21/2008 at 01:10 PM
Woohoo! Sharon, you go.
Posted by: Priscilla | 03/24/2008 at 04:28 PM
Love it! Congrats! This is a Falkenberg, right? It's fabulous.
Posted by: tracy_a | 03/26/2008 at 03:15 PM
Woo hoo! It's wonderful to finish a project that has been on the needles a long time. It looks beautiful!
Posted by: Karen | 03/29/2008 at 11:53 AM
It's gorgeous!
Posted by: suann | 03/29/2008 at 06:42 PM
I love your Rainbow Jacket, could you tell me where to get the pattern.
Love, love the colors.
Happy Knitting!
Posted by: Mariann in TX. | 03/31/2008 at 08:00 PM