Greetings and Dear Cynthia,
WOW, a blog post! My first since, um, September 12, 2011, I think…. Back then, I was working on Christmas sweaters for my two little boys, using the Beth Brown Reinsel guidelines from her book Knitting Ganseys to design and knit each of my sons a Gansey sweater.
Update: I got the sweaters finished before Christmas that year, the boys wore them many times, outgrew them, went off to college, and I stowed the sweaters in boxes in the basement to save them for a time in which there may be children around again who would fit into them. I guess a lot happens in 12 years.
I’m currently working on a giant mentally consuming sweater called the Affogato Cardigan from the Spring 2023 issue of Interweave Knits.
https://ravel.me/affogato-cardigan
It’s coming along nicely, and I’ve found my little mistakes soon after making them, so far have not had to rip back more than a row or two…. Here is a partial left front (which has since been completed), a sideways back, and a sleeve in progress:
