I Hate Sleeves

I hate knitting sleeves.  I haven’t knit all that many (yet) but I already have decided that I really don’t like them.

You’d think, being that I love knitting socks, that sleeves wouldn’t be a big deal.  What is a sleeve but a long sock minus the heel?  Yet, I can’t stand them.

Exhibit A. My “Charlie Brown” sweater.

I started on this project on August 16th.  I made great progress on the body of the sweater, which was knitted in the round from the bottom up.  The fair isle zig-zag was fun. Even the decreasing for the neck kept my attention.

But the sleeves?  No.  This thing has been languishing, stuffed in the bottom of my living room ottoman (thank goodness for storage ottmans – every knitter needs one).

If I could just get past the sleeves, this sweater would be done in no time flat!  All I’d have to do is knit the ribbing around the neckline.  That’s it.  But no matter how hard I try, I can’t seem to force myself into digging it out of the ottoman.

Exhibit B. Wallaby Sweater #2.

And here we have another armless sweater!  (Er… or should I say sleeveless?  Sweaters don’t really have arms, do they?)

I thought I’d get particularly clever with this sweater and knit the sleeves two at a time.  And I thought I’d do it on magic loop so that I wouldn’t have to deal with pesky DPNs.

… Both good ideas, but I’m quickly finding that neither is helping my sleeve-knitting motivation any.

You know what’s even worse?  These are only children’s size sweaters.  Imagine what’s going to happen when I cast on the adult-size sweaters that have in my “to-knit” queue?!  HELP.  I need some sleeve-knitting mojo over here!!

Hm, either that or perhaps we’ll go with a Charlie Brown vest and a hooded tank top sweater.  What do you think?  Ha ha.