Almost Done with Granite

It seems I always miscalculate how long it actually takes to finish a sweater after it is knitted.

I cleared about half the sewing room cutting table, enough that I could set up the blocking board or work on some simple sewing projects.  Yesterday I got granite blocked with the idea that I would finish it today.

I am not sure if I actually forget how long assembly takes, or if I just over-estimate the available time.  It is probably a combination of both.

Needless to say the sweater is not completed yet, so there are no finished photos.  The shoulders are seamed and the neckline has been finished.  I need to use the cutting table to sew in the sleeves and the side seams, as I am more comfortable laying those out neatly on a flat surface before seaming.    At the moment another project is occupying the cutting table.  I hope to be able to finish tomorrow.

In the meantime I am drooling over the aqua Gedifra yarn (see last post) and I carried it around with me yesterday but instead I got all wrapped up in the newspapers and reading the business and financial sections.  Then I was trying to sort out all the information in my head, making notes and trying to compile and make sense of everything I read and what I thought of it.  I am the kind of reader who always has to write out passages make notes on things I want to remember.  I don't necessarily save the notes, but it helps me pull my thoughts together.  Anyway, as you can probably surmise, trying to knit my thoughts into a coherent whole was more time consuming than I had planned.  

So, in my usual fashion, I shall just pin great hopes on tomorrow.  I intend to finish sewing up Granite and start the next project.  We'll see what actually happens.