I have four jobs.
I teach art history at a local community college. I give tours and work the front desk at a fabulous 19th century historic house museum. I am the Program Director at a very active historical society. And I knit customized Converse Chuck Taylors that I sell on Etsy.
All four are part time jobs. Most of the time, I'm only actively working two or maybe three of them at once, which is manageable. But, for the first two weeks this month, they have all conspired to overlap. My semester is winding down while my museum job starts up for the season. My work at the historical society work continues as normal and, inexplicably, knitted shoe sales have spiked. I can usually rely on a slowdown in spring and summer, but not this year. Things are busy. As a result, I've had to set aside my 1910s sweater project for a bit while I finish grading and make shoes for my customers.
Nonetheless, I do have a few insights to share about the project. No pictures though; it is still a big lump of brown garter stitch. I'm sure you can imagine what that looks like. In knitting the back and arms, which, as you'll recall, are all done in one giant piece, I decided to add a few rows to lengthen the piece just slightly. It is meant to sit at the natural waist, but I got nervous at how short it was looking, so I couldn't resist the temptation to add a bit more length. Plus, I found a couple weird, but simple, math errors in the pattern that were easily corrected by adding in an extra row here and there.
I'm currently working down the right front, having cast off all of the sleeve stitches. The pattern gives no instruction whatsoever for this section of the sweater, so I decided to make it exactly like the back, including all side shaping. Remember that my 1900s sweater did not have perfectly matching back and front seams, but I think matching is the right call here. The left front will have buttonholes worked into the center edge. Since there are just the sketchiest of directions for this, I've pre-calculated buttonhole placement so I will know exactly how to place them when I get to that point.
