I’ve got my embroidery club meeting coming up on Thursday and the ladies expect to see my embroidered skirt and I still haven’t finished assembling it, because it’s the least creative and most tedious part of it all. Got to hurry up now to get it done by Thursday.

And it’s done!

The pattern is a simplified version of Sweatrrr (check it out on Ravelry) and it’s one I used earlier. I liked the fit and the construction of it, even though I am still rather annoyed with its frustrating curling hem. This time I knew better, so I gave it a simple checkerboard hem (which you can see in yesterday’s photo). This worked out a lot better.

The yarn I bought Apmezga, a Lithuanian seller, at the Stockholm Sewing Fair this autumn. It’s a merino wool and nylon blend, and it’s as soft as a cloud. The sweater feels like a second skin. Except warmer.

Wet blocking my just-finished sweater. (On my nice new blocking mat, even! Very helpful.)

Didn’t get it done before the end of the year, but the first week of the new year is also a good time for finishing things.

I finished the last appliqué piece for my skirt, which means it’s time to have another go at assembling it all. This is the most boring part of the whole project, but I’m looking forward to finishing it.

All of a sudden, the colours in the cardigan sleeve I’m knitting are pooling together. Almost an inevitability, really, given how mathematics and variegated yarns work. The sleeve slowly gets narrower and narrower, so at some point the width is going to match up with the periodicity of the dye on the hank of yarn.

I don’t like it, so I’ll be ripping this up and doing something about it. Breaking it up with a second piece of the same yarn, in the other direction so the colours don’t just line up again.

I like winding yarn by hand. I like the feel of it, and the look of the ball. Skeins and cakes are all good, but a good old traditional ball is still… nicer.

Red and green, wool, hand-made.

Cardigan is done. It’s just the ends left to weave in, and then to find buttons for it.

Embroidery club. Theme of the day: marking/signing your work. We’re not done (this is square 6 out of 9) but it is the last time we meet up for this year, so it feels appropriate, somehow.

Plus Christmas fika.

Mirror selfie.

The back of the neck on this cardigan is too tight, like I suspected. Rip up and redo.

Yes, Eric offered to take a photo if it for me, but this was more fun.