How do you measure a year?

No, the sweater is not taking me that long to knit, nor is it made with that many stitches! A Rav group that I frequent (ok, spend most of my free time in…) declared 2012 as “The Year of the Sweater”. It’s been a weird year for me with many changes and challenges in my personal life, and there have been more than a few days when I feel like I’ve accomplished so little--even in my knitting life. But I look back at the Year of the Sweater garments that I’ve completed so far, and I see a respectable body of work & several designs that I’m proud of and pleased with. 2012 has not been all for naught, and I continue to keep plugging away at the 525,600 minutes in this year.

How do you measure a year?
In daylights, in sunsets?
In midnights, in cups of coffee?
In inches, in miles, in laughter, in strife?

In five hundred twenty-five thousand
Six hundred minutes
How do you measure
A year in the life?

Began with 323 g of yarn. 191 g left after finishing the body (used 132 g for body sans sleeves). 170 g left after 1st sleeve (each sleeve = 21 g). 150 left after second sleeve (each sleeve = ~20 g).
Finished Sweater = 173 g total.

Construction notes:

• Gauge (both my pre- and post-blocking) is 24 st & 32 rows/4”.
• Sweater begins by knitting the trim at the top of the neckline.
• Stitches are then picked up from the garter-edge of the trim, stitch markers placed….and the garment is then worked top-down, working raglan increases at the markers, and working the lace trim at the same time as the body.
• There is some waist shaping
• lace pattern is worked at the bottom of the garment, and the bindoff requires use of a crochet hook.
• Sleeves are picked up after the body is complete, and worked in the round down to the cuff. Twisted rib stabilizes the cuff.

Pattern is in the works--Look for it by the end of September 2012.