Yoked to a Turtle

I started a sweater for LSH a long time ago. Actually, I started several sweaters for him a long time ago. But this particular sweater I started about 10 years ago (and yes, there’s another one of his that’s been a UFO even longer).

It’s a perfectly nice sweater in a perfectly nice pattern, but as often happens, I got distracted. By what I really couldn’t say, given that it was so very long ago. The sweater itself has been moved 3 times since then, with not a single stitch knit in the intervening time. It’s a very traditional looking Lopi sweater with a circular yoke. The body is finished up to the yoke. One of the sleeves was within an inch and a half of being finished up to the yoke. And that’s how it stayed.

I had a pretty good idea how much of this sweater remained to be knit, so I hatched a scheme. I’d knit it when he wasn’t around and give him a surprise gift for his birthday at the end of March.

He left on Monday for a week long business trip, and Monday afternoon ‘Parkle Girl and I hit the stash. There it was – right where it was supposed to be, in a box all the way down. We retrieved it, I found the pattern, and I was ready to go. By the time he got home, I’d finished the first sleeve (up through the yoke) and was about 10” into the second. Now I just have to wait until he’s very distracted or busy and see how much knitting I can sneak in.