LK Knits

OK, I must really like this yarn and pattern to dive in this quickly:

That is the body and most of the first sleeve of the lopi sweater using the yarn and pattern I bought in Iceland. And I've only been home a week!

This progress is due to two things: I was a bachelorette during the week last week, so I spent more evening time by myself watching movies than usual. But more significantly, and less healthily, I absolutely use knitting as workcrastination. The bigger the task, the more I workcrastinate; thus having a book manuscript deadline of August 31 means I have knit a LOT since January! This is why I loaned my copy of Melissa Leapman's Cables Untangled to a girlfriend back in February: no cables for me until I finish the book! But then this lopi thing happened ...

I'm just whining a little to get it off my chest and alleviate the guilt. The writing will get done; indeed, it was mostly done even before I "officially" started writing in January. But it's the knitting it all together (pun intended) that is the hard, and intellectually rewarding, stage I'm at now.

But the knitting gratification comes more quickly ...