I may have mentioned once or twice before that I have some crafting ADHD. In the past year, my yarn-bending has come out full force (along with my pendant making, but that’s another post).

To keep tabs on myself because I’ve had several projects that are YEARS old now (seriously, like 7 years).

We all have those projects.

You know the ones….

They take forever.

You love them.

You hate them.

You wish they’d be done already.

Well, shit, you completely messed up and have to start all the way over again…

This one cardigan is mine.

It’s an exceedingly complex circle sweater that I’m knitting.

To make matters more special, it’s got tons of teeny, tiny cable stitches throughout the whole thing…and the whole thing is pretty much reversible so…

It’s insanely difficult. It was even more so when I first started it as a noob knitter.

I started this sucker YEARS ago. Like 2013.

I worked the entire sleeve and started on the body only to realize I was making the WRONG SIZE.

I’m pretty sure I cried as I started again two years ago…from scratch. I worked the new sleeve directly from the old sleeve, literally using the same yarn as I pulled it free of the sleeve to stitch the new one. I did that two years ago.

I worked on it steadily for a few months until I’d hit the exact same point I’d been at when I’d REstarted it months before.

Then dropped it. Went onto other projects. Easier projects. Crochet projects. Anything but this.

Relegated to a drawer it sat there for a long time.

Then a couple of months ago, I sold everything. Okay, not EVERYTHING, but about 95% of my yarn, even if they had projects attached to them. In bulk.

All gone.

That left me with precisely 3 projects to work on. 2 knitting, 1 crochet.

So, this sweater has been getting attention.

A lot of it.

Which has led to this.

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I’m not quite halfway done with it. Probably 40%…but it’s made a huge leap forward. I’ve got about 180 rows until I can start doing the insanely long rows of the back. I’m kind of surprised at how fast it’s been going now that I’ve really dedicated to just a couple of projects.

It’s still not as fast as many yarn weavers…but I’m still very pleased at how it’s coming along.  There’s been a few gaffs along the way, but they lend to the character of the outfit.  Who knows, I may finish this before my kids graduate high school at this point. I wasn’t sure that would ever happen. It has already been six years, after all. 😉