I always seem to underestimate how long the actual finishing of a sweater will take. I know, intellectually, that seaming up and knitting bands and collars etc takes time, but at some place in my knitters heart, once I am done with the actual knitting of the pieces of a sweater I think of it as done and I start moving on to dreaming of the next piece and preparing myself to spend time with a new project. Hence it always comes as a bit of a surprise, although it shouldn't really, that it takes longer to get the sweater out of my basket and onto the shelf than I expect. Sweaters knitting projects are a lot like the kind of guest who says "its time to go" and then talks another half hour, then starts to leave and repeats the process over and over so that it takes an hour or more to get through the ritual of "leaving".
I don't actually begrudge the time spent finishing a sweater. A sweater assembled well is a joy and I enjoyed sewing up the Rice Stitch Cardigan although I did put it off a while, not so much because I didn't want to to do it, but because it required long chunks of undistracted time. The collar is also proving to be a long process, which of course I would have realized had I actually spared the time to think about it. The collar is about 60 inches long and 6 inches wide, all done in k2, P2 ribbing. Each row takes forever.
Well actually each row takes about 15 minutes if I am awake and paying attention. If I am tired the time can slow to 20 minutes.
Twelve rows have been completed here:
24 more rows to go, a crocheted edge along the bottom band, and 5 buttons. I estimate about another 6 to 7 hours. Needless to say it will not be finished today.
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