Is this the last garment I’ll ever knit?

Pattern: River Tweed
Yarn: Cleckheaton Country
Alternations: As suggested on Ravelry, I added 4 stitches to each underarm. I also added an inch to the arm-to-waist section, which it turned out I didn’t need to do because the yarn relaxed after washing.
Comments: I love everything about this except the button bands. I’m not thrilled about the way they sit at the neckline. Not having the collar begin from the button band makes the band look like an afterthought. But I’d probably be less critical if the band wasn’t garter stitch. It doesn’t make a firm enough fabric to resist bowing between each button. Still, if it really bothered me I’d frog and reknit the band in ribbing. Though perhaps I would be more motivated to do so if I didn’t have RSI.

Well… it might be the last major garment I knit completely on the needles. If I can get most of the knitting done on the knitting machine, perhaps I can still produce them without aggravating my wrist. The next one I intended to tackle was going to be mostly done on the machine anyway. Just the cuffs and bands to do by hand. Or perhaps I’ll work through a garment slowly. It took me four months to knit River Tweed anyway, which is unusually long for me. I could whip a jumper out in 4 to 6 weeks if I stayed focussed.

That I’m actually contemplating knitting at all is thanks to my hand being much improved. Only the occasional flash of heat or twinge of pain now. I was able to sew the buttons on River Tweed with only a little soreness afterwards. On Saturday I warped up the small loom, which didn’t bother me until I had to tie the warp on. The little knots caused a bit of soreness, so I did them in two batches. That’s the secret to getting things done now: tackle them in short bursts.

And I seem to recall you can buy sock knitting machines. Might have to look into that, considering the size of my sock yarn stash.