Do or Do Not; There is No Try.

For me, the process of knitting and designing something is a bit of a crap shoot. I admire the designers out there who sketch everything out and plan ahead to the hilt, but even though I do swatch, I do draw and I do sketch and plot, there are things that I sort of leave open ended. I'm not sure why; I just do.

In this case, with the re-vamp of the Girlfriend Swing Coat Sweater, I left the front closures up in the air. And after re-writing the entire pattern, re-sizing it, re-editing it and all of that, I'm still not sure what to do with the front closures.

Although I do like buttons on sweaters, I find that unless the fabric is stiff enough, buttons on hand knit sweaters can get a bit wonky. (BTW: I remember an English friend of mine who used that term when describing a particular woman's eyes and I spent an hour asking him what wonky really meant and he had a hard time describing it. I guess I'm late to the party on that one because that was years ago. Now, I totally understand wonky. Yes, many times, buttons on hand-knit sweaters can get wonky. Or hit or miss. Or what have you. I know you get it.)

So this is where I am with this sweater. Tomorrow I will go to the dreaded Jo-Ann's, preferably only semi-sober by cab (jk), and look at closures. Part of me thinks that three medium-size buttons would go well on top with little crocheted or elastic button loops on the buttonhole band side of the sweater. Another part of me thinks i-cord ties with huge pom poms would be fun, too. The third part of me has no clue.

The yarn is Sweater by Spud & Chloe in Waterslide. It has to be the very best Tiffany-type blue that I have ever seen. This is the second sweater I've knit with this yarn.

P.S. I wrote this post while Girlfriend read aloud to me out of a book and declared that she was going off to make a stained glass window. I said: "Great; go for it!" and then I remembered the years when I worked in stained glass. It's a pain in the wazoo, that stained glass, and I pray that after I type my last word here that I won't get up off the couch and discover that she's found my old soldering iron, glass cutter, et. al. Oy.

BTW: Girlfriend is going to be Princess Leia for Halloween. She has mean hair that can do ear-buns better than anyone.