Once it was a sweater

So, during the aforementioned attempt at getting my shit together I hauled a sweater I had knit several years ago and just like the Mission Falls Cotton sweater, it was too big, not due to gauge but to an improper assessment of the size needed. Ah well, I am trying to correct that little problem. This sweater wasn't actually for me, but for my grandfather and I had measured it to a sweater he gave me for just such a measuring purpose. Unfortunately he has lost weight since the time we picked out the sweater and it was too large a size to begin with. As much as I love Jo Sharp's patterns, I think they are often over-sized and I didn't realize that at the time of either the cotton sweater or this one. Both were Sharp patterns. Oh well, it isn't like I mind knitting and both sweaters helped me get better. Lessons learned and all that.

That being said, the sweater had to be unraveled as Matt claimed it was over-sized not just for Hosmer, but for Shamu. Harsh but probably true. So unravel it I did but I am determined to reclaim the yarn. I love it and I must make it into a sweater. I am making it into a sweater for me though as Hosmer has already put in a request for "a nice cabled sweater" and picked out the yarn for that project. But before it can be a sweater it had to stop looking like this

See all those kinks, not good for the new sweater. So I put it back on my swift,

and then soaked the skeins in lukewarm water with a little conditioner, squeezed out the water and hung it up to dry in my shower. The hangers help to straighten it out a bit without overstretching it. And now it looks like this

New crewneck sweater here we come, but not before I finish the cotton raglan, I swear.