I don't know what I'm waiting for...

Hi everyone and no one.

This is my first blog post.  I have no followers.  I have been trying to start this blog for over a year now.  I have failed at every attempt simply because I wasn't sure I had anything to say that anyone would want to read.  I still don't know that anyone will read this, but now I don't care if no one reads it.  I will be writing this for me regardless of who may or may not read my odd ramblings about sticks and yarn or the projects that might be made with them.

I write this now because I have failed to accomplish the one project that I wished to finish in 2009.  My husband's sweater that has been on the needles for twelve long years is still unfinished.

The yarn was purchased in a cute little shop in Malmo, Sweden.  The pattern was also purchased there.  Printed in Swedish.  The yarn is 100% wool Idun (which is now discontinued) in blue and tan.  It has a simple (at least I thought it was when I bought it) fair isle pattern across of the chest of snowflakes.  For some reason, I knit through the back in nothing flat with few if any problems.  The front was another matter.  I knit and ripped and knit and ripped and then relegated it to the back of the knitting closet.

In the meantime, I had three lovely (read weird) boys whom I cherish most of the time.  Now that these strange little creatures are growing up, I decided to finish this sweater for which my husband has been waiting patiently that is when he isn't mentioning impatiently what ever happened to that sweater I was knitting him.

So, in 2009, I swore that he would have it by his birthday.  Sadly, that came and went.  So, I swore that he would have it by Christmas.  Sadly, that has now come and gone.  Now the year is 2010 and I have the back and front finished and two sleeves mostly done.


I SWEAR BY MY NEXT BLOG POST THAT THIS SWEATER WILL BE FINISHED!!!!

So, there.   I have now gotten over the blogging hump.  My first blog post is posted.  Everyone (probably no one) now knows what a knitting schmuck I am.

Next time I post, I swear to have pictures of a completed sweater.  I have no idea if it will fit, but it will be finished.  Did I mention the pattern was written in Swedish?  I don't speak Swedish.