Remember the raglan cardigan which appeared to be – shall we say – LARGE? Well, as it turns out – it is quite large.
I always wondered how (or is it “why?”) knitters would make a sweater that’s “obviously” too big for them and just keep knitting it. Now I know! Fortunately – it appears to be my husband’s size and the color is a nice one on him. He’s not really much of a cold-blooded person though so it’s unknown how much wear he will actually get out of it this winter – or any winter for that matter – providing the knitting on it ever ends. Did I mention it’s LARGE???
I’ve made him a couple of pair of socks in the past – and those seemed ENDLESS as well. They don’t call him “Big Mike” for nothing. 
Soooo – if I ever get it finished, Smitty’s getting a sweater from me. He’s always such a good sport about wearing things I make him – even the disasters – which, I’d rather he didn’t, but he loves that I made it for him, so he saves those things to wear around the house. Once a friend of ours dropped by when he was wearing a shirt I’d made where one side ended up wrong-side out – we had to explain the whole odd shirt thing. The friend got a good laugh out of it.
So, back to the whole raglan cardigan thing – it’s all the proper gauge, and knitting up exactly the way the pattern “recipe” said it would. What made me think that I needed enough “ease” in a garment that would make it the same size as my husband’s suit jacket is beyond me. But, I’ve learned now that it isn’t all that big of a stretch to make something for yourself that turns out enormous – because now I’ve done it!
Shifting gears here to Friday’s Webstops post -
I don’t know about you, but I’m “always” a day late, and a dollar short when it comes to entering contests or giveaways online – or anywhere for that matter. I often will catch up on my Bloglines reading only to find that five or six of my favorite blogs have had give-aways that ended the day before I checked back in.
Once – I actually discovered that one time I’d won something the day or two before I checked in on a blog I followed. That was a surprise! I gave the blog owner my details for where to mail my winnings – and never heard from them again. I think they stopped blogging about that time. LOL I had to laugh. It’s just so, something that would happen to me. I didn’t really mind though – I had always enjoyed reading that blog and I wasn’t expecting to win anything anyway. It cracked me up though to find I’d won something, but didn’t really. I was most disappointed that they stopped blogging. Can’t remember now who it was – but I always looked forward to seeing their blog had a new post on it in my Bloglines.
Now, on the offchance you have better results with giveaways than I do (and I know Rebekah has been a big wiener a couple of times!) I thought it might be fun to post a couple I’ve run across this week among the Webstops.
May the force be with you –
Webstops
- One Hundred Hats
- Yarn On The house
- Berroco Knits has a book and a knit kit they’re giving away.
- This one’s over with but Alana regularly has give-aways on her blog/podcast, so you could check back there frequently or subscribe to her podcast if you have time to listen.
- Not a giveaway per se but Wendy is leading a Knit-Along for a pi shawl that she designed – the pattern is free and she’s there to answer questions if you have any.
- Not a giveaway or even about knitting – but a really nice blog called Food & Style for people who want to can their own fruits and veggies or just like nice pictures of food! (There are recipes here too.)
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well that’s good your husband will wear it. Nick’s been itching for me to make him a new sweater, but he doesn’t wear the one I made him because he’s too warm-blooded. Maybe I’ll make him a cotton sweater.
I’ve given up entering contests or running them. Its too time consuming to think about.
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Yeah. I’m right there with you. I have that problem with sweaters that I knit for myself. Sometimes, my sweaters come out too small. I even have a duct-tape body double that I use to make sure that my sweaters don’t come out too small. Either the girls got bigger after I was wrapped in duct tape, or I am not in my right mind when I try the project on the dummy. The last sweater I made looked great on the dummy, but I stretched the heck out of it trying to get it to not be so snug across the front. I think it’s an omen from the knitting gods, saying that I wasn’t going to be very attractive in that sweater in the first place. I try to put a positive spin on my disappointment.
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