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. 
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Erm, you know you can’t frog the steeks right? But when you’re all thin, you just have to undo the bands and cut the whole thing smaller and sew it up again. Easy
I love the look of that yarn – nice and tweedy!
So glad to see that you are making a sweater! I look forward to seeing how the New Lanark knits up – I’ve heard a lot of good things about this yarn.
good for you! there’s so many things we put off, waiting for something. once x happens, i’ll do y. but really we need to enjoy each day (or sweater) exactly as we are right now. like you say, you can always frog the sweater and knit it smaller! but the steeks – i haven’t tried those yet so i’ll be waiting with trepidation to see how you do it
Yay! It’s great that you’re making a sweater for yourself! And well done on not putting it off! I’m guilty of that myself, telling myself I’ll do something when some other criteria is fulfilled, then I end up never doing it, and feel bad about it. So it’s great you’ve decided to just go ahead and do it!
Ooo, ooo, argyle! Awesome. Go for it! I’m totally in the trap of not knitting garments because I want to lose weight, and I envy people who can get past the mental block and be logical and just knit the damned things already. <3
I started laughing when I saw the first paragraph of this. I’ve been thinking something along this line myself. Why would I want to put all the effort into a sweater to have it not fit? Really, I think it would be more heart breaking to knit something too small (which has happened to me a few times) than something a bit too big. Seams can always be taken in.
Ya, I think I’m going to have to decide on a pattern and jump on in there myself. At least I finally got around to sort of putting my knitting room together.