callus

Over the last little while I've been developing a callus on my index finger from all the needle pushing I've been doing. The 3.5 mm needles I've been using for a very slow going sweater project have been helping it along greatly. Especially after I rediscovered the project tucked away under my sewing table where I had placed it the last time I worked on it for too long and my fingers couldn't handle the needles anymore. I swear, my fingers aren't big fans of small needles - but then again, is there any hands that are?

Anyways, this sweater is my next big project to focus on when hats and scarves get me down. After reading multiple knitting writers who claim that the difficult-looking, -reading, -etc. patterns are only difficult as a whole and can be broken down into easy rows, I've decided to definitely keep going with this and challenge myself with this four out of four bar difficulty leveled pattern, so declares Vogue knitting. Bring it on, baby; I'mma get some rubber thimbles for you.

This is the only picture I could find on google of the back of the sweater [apparently no one else loves this sweater like I do]

The only thing I worry about a wee bit is that I'm using acrylic yarn again [Phentex Worsted to be exact] and so I'm hoping the lace work comes out ok and it doesn't end up too short like my parachute top [although I'm thinking the pattern for that one was accounting for mad loosage after blocking, whereas this one seems to give more "realistic" lengths for fitting even if you don't block].

I guess we shall see!