I have been feeling rather under the weather this week. A coworker came to work sick on Monday, and by the time I left at the end of the day, I was feeling completely miserable. Tuesday I still wasn’t feeling great, so I wound up staying home.

The upshot of this was that I got a bunch of knitting done. I’ve been trying to finish some old, languishing projects before letting myself dive into any (big) new things (all I want to knit these days are sweaters and vests). Yesterday, this sweater that I started just over two years ago finally came off the needles.

Two years and twenty-one days is a ridiculous amount of time to spend on an entirely stockinette stitch sweater.

You can’t really tell from the picture, but the dark bit of the sweater is an impossible-to-photograph shade of deep, plummy purple. It is a little astonishing to me that this is the first purple sweater I’ve knit.

I really wasn’t sure how this was going to turn out – my gauge changed a little bit over the past two years, and this entire sweater was an experiment in combining Elizabeth Zimmerman’s sparse instructions with my own modifications to her suggested measurements. It’s a sweater made from yarn and math, really. I shouldn’t be surprised that it fits so well – after all, that was the point. But I’m still pretty chuffed about it.

I’m sure most people in Chicago would disagree with me, but I’m glad the weather is shifting cooler again for the rest of the week. Hopefully that means I’ll get to wear it out of the house at least once before summer hits!