Radioactive Dandelion
Finished
July 10, 2017
August 27, 2017

Radioactive Dandelion

Project info
Marigold Sweater by Amy Polcyn
Knitting
SweaterCardigan
Me
41.5
Needles & yarn
US 4 - 3.5 mm
US 5 - 3.75 mm
22 stitches and 28 rows = 4 inches
in lace wrap stitch
WYS Essential DK
DK (11 wpi)
5 skeins = 1257.7 yards (1150.0 meters)
Yellow
Yellow
Deramores
Notes

I swatched for this during my last chemotherapy session. Serious knitting started the day I started radiotherapy. An hour there, and hour back, a few minutes in the waiting room, and an odd moment at home - all my time is recorded in stitches. Knitting in the car is much slower than knitting when stationary, though, so much to my disappointment I didn’t quite complete this by the end of radiation treatments. I got the body done, however! I realize my brain was still quite foggy when I started, too, and I did a lot of ripping out at the beginning. And then there was the third piece of the body, when I forgot to change from the smaller needles after the ribbing, and nearly had it completed when I realized my error…Oh! The tragedy! Nonetheless, the whole exercise - knitting and cancer treatment, both - is just about persisting, and I did. I’ve also rationalized the extended time-scale for completion: radiotherapy (as I have been warned again and again by the nurses) continues to work for 7-10 days after treatment has ended. So if I can finish the sleeves by then….

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August 27, 2017
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  • Project created: August 5, 2017
  • Finished: September 7, 2017
  • Updated: April 25, 2018
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