I have been putting off knitting myself a sweater for a long time. I fell into the trap that I think a lot of permanently-on-a-diet knitters probably do, which is to think that “well, it’s not worth my while knitting a sweater when I’m going to lose weight and it’ll be too big and all that effort for nothing”. Plus there’s the idea that “well, I can save £5/£10 if I wait til I’m a few inches smaller and can knit a smaller size which needs fewer balls of yarn”.

So basically I have been denying myself sweatery goodness because I was an idiot. Though I’m not close to my target yet (though close to another weightloss milestone, which is a good feeling!), there’s no real reason why I can’t knit a sweater. What’s the worst thing that could happen? If it ends up swimming on me, then I can frog it and reknit it. And being selfish is all about spoiling myself and not spending all my time on projects that I never get to wear.

Trouble is, I’m spoiled for choice. I have so many pullovers, cardigans and vests in my queue that I could knit nothing else for the next couple of years. I have yarn all ready for at least four or five of them as well. So of course the only thing to do is to buy more:

My excuse being that my MIL gave me money for Christmas and if I didn’t spend it quick, it would end up being used for boring but useful stuff like toilet rolls. So I have 10 balls of New Lanark DK, 5 each in ecru and natural black (which in real life is a dark brown) and I am going to knit a Deep V Argyle Vest. Not clever and handspun like Diane’s, but steeking will be challenge enough as I haven’t done any since the steekalong a couple of years ago. Plus I want to finish it before the end of the century. The yarn is definitely going to be nice and sticky, but it’s not nearly as rough as I had feared it would be. And it’s under £2 for a 50g ball, which is a complete bargain for pure wool yarn.

Other sweaters I have lined up are Rogue (which I’ve been planning to knit for over three years; proof of this is the fact that I bought the pattern on 25th July 2005), Urban Aran Pullover-turned-Cardigan (I am finally small enough to fit into the largest size! hurrah!), Central Park Hoodie and Torbay. There’s a definite cable theme going on with my queue at the moment.