This is Glimmer as of 2pm Saturday. I wanted to share more of the progress, but I also wanted to keep my mom in the dark as to whether it would actually be finished on time. So let's recap the week in knitting. I was completely monogamous with Glimmer, didn't touch other knitting at all. I really enjoyed knitting this sweater. As of Wednesday evening, I had completed the back, half of each sleeve, and the right and left front peplums. Thursday I had a quick meeting with my advisor to recap the dissertation proposal meeting (sidenote: meeting went much better than I anticipated. I had proposed 3 experiments, and the committee wants me to only do 2, but beef up those 2 a bit. I'm very excited now about actually getting started on this stuff. The end of graduate school is getting clearer... although the daunting task of writing and defending a dissertation are things I'm trying to block from my mind). So after my morning meeting, I had about 4 hours until my class at 5pm. Since I had my lecture prepared and I didn't have anything pressing that ended to be finished, I closed my office door and knit furiously on the left front of the sweater. After class, I went to knitting night and was able to finish the left front and start the right front (above the peplum). Thursday night Kevin got sick, so I didn't sleep much and got out of bed fairly early because my tossing and turning wasn't helping him. I figured it was a good time to knit on the right front. I had an afternoon meeting and a talk to go to, but by Friday evening I had finished the right front and moved onto finishing the sleeves. Saturday morning I finished the sleeves and started sewing. In my knitting class Monday, I taught the students how to seam/sew a sweater. One girl asked if I disliked seaming because she heard a lot of knitters hate seaming. I told her, no I don't hate seaming. It isn't my favorite, but I don't dislike it. This was before I had to try to seam something in reverse stockinette stitch. I checked my best books on finishing/seaming and they weren't much help. I managed to sew the shoulders with a mattress type of stitch. I set in the sleeves and seamed the sleeves with a running stitch which I'm not very happy with. By the time I got to the body pieces, I decided to take some advice from my grandmom who long ago told me to seam with crochet. I crocheted the body seams and they came out great, so I went back and crocheted in the sleeves, but didn't have enough energy to crochet the sleeve seams, but I think they are ok in the running stitch. Even though I didn't get to block it, I think the sweater looks good.

Overall, this pattern is well written (although there are a lot of the do x and y and z, and at the same time do q and remember to do p at the appropriate length). I really like the Rowan Summer Tweed, especially once I switched to metal needles. I can hardly wait to start on Glint for me!

Since my mom now has 2 sweaters, I need to make one for my dad (yes, Kevin still deserves a sweater... but I'm still waiting on inspiration for that). Do you have any suggestions of good sources for men's sweaters?

And finally for today, I'll leave you with a picture created by Kevin's brother and a good friend out of clay. I appreciate that they paired me with some knitting things...