It’s Business Time**

It seems customary to document the first time you take a sharp pair of scissors to several months worth of knitting so I broke out the camera on Saturday for a steeking session.  Let it be known that because I was about to enjoy an afternoon of wine tasting and an evening of beer tasting it was only 11 in the morning, I did not even wash this steek down with my beverage of choice, which I’m sure would help steel oneself against the pain of purposefully cutting one’s own knitting.

Alien baby sweater.*

The beginnings of a steek–the pink is one of my favorite cookcooks, Nigella Express, coming through for me again.

Tada! It actually looks like a sweater again!

I know it’s supposed to be mentally and emotionally painful to cut a steek, but to be honest, it didn’t phase me a bit.  Call me cruel, but I thought it was kind of fun.  Mwahaha.

You’d think I’d be done with this sweater, seeing as I cut this steek on Saturday, but 3 days later, I still have 4 rows of corrugated ribbing to knit.  Does anyone have a trick for knitting corrugated ribbing faster?  Sheesh.  I mean, it looks nice and all, but it takes me forever!  So I have 4 days to finish knitting the neckband, wash and block the sweater and weave in a handful of ends.  Piece o’ cake, right?

*Sorry about the quality of these photos.  The light on a winter morning in Seattle does not yield the best photos, but I just couldn’t wait for better light.

**Anyone else a huge Flight of the Conchords geek?