conditions under which you can knit a sweater for a man...1. he is your father, brother, grandfather, or a really awesome and appreciative cousin or in-law.
2. you are married to the recipient or have been together long enough to be considered common law.
3. you have signed a pre-knit-ual agreement.
4. you want to end your relationship.
even though rW is a sweater wearing, knit-desiring, pretty-awesome guy, he does not fit into any of these descriptors. however, i am a total sucker.
very few knitters have men in their lives that want to have things knit for them... let alone a tie. yes, a tie. people are pretty evenly divided on knit ties. either they hate them or they love them, and most people who i know who love them have no one to knit one for.
this is my first knit tie, and it has been fun to make so far. it goes faster than you would expect for fingering weight yarn on size US 3 needles. i find that i can get in a rhythm with the linen stitch after a few rows and it moves.rW calls it a sock tie, which i think is a funny name, but i guess it is accurate because it is knit from sock yarn. the truly silly thing is that despite calling it a sock tie, last night we were looking at knit ties on ravelry and he didn't like one we saw because it looked "too much" like a sock.
silly!
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Love that color! What's he going to wear it with?
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