With me I have four stages (hopefully) when knitting a garment.
1) Cast on and knit like mad, filled with motivation and excitement at the newness of the project.
2) Get a bit bored and start knitting other things. This usually happens after I've finished the back and possibly half the front.
3) Grit my teeth and pick it up again. This is the hardest bit.
4) Nearing the finish my wip usually gets a new lease of life and I'm full of enthusiasm again.
With Primrose Path, stage 1 lasted up to the armholes of the body of the garment (knitted in the round).
Stage 2 lasted a week, where I've been knitting single socks and other socks.
I'm now on Stage 3, the difficult bit. I've gritted my teeth today, finished the whole body and have cast on for sleeve 1. It's awkward, knitted in the round. I've tried to do magic loop as I loathe those 40cm circulars, but it's too fiddly, so I'm using a 40cm needle, just for the first few inches, then I'll switch to a longer circular.
The pattern instructions say row tension is vital, as the pattern swirls up and around the body, but my cunning plan has worked - I knitted two extra pattern repeats (12 rows in total) before dividing for the armholes, and moved the side seam markers by 10 stitches (each pattern repeat moves the pattern 5 stitches to the left).
Front
Back
Not too obvious here, but it's very narrow!
I tried it on as is and it's, ahem, form fitting. I'm presuming I can steam it open a bit more. I'm doing 3" of negative ease as per pattern instructions, just hope Cathay opens up!
This is my fifth garment for NaKniSweMoDo. I had a little stash sorting last weekend and put a lot of more summery yarns in the front bins. Of course this action has increased my list of possible projects, but I'll wait a few more weeks, see if the weather heats up a bit.
Plans for this week -
Finish the first sleeve of Primrose path (I'm halfway through, on the easy ribbing only bit).
Knit my May Debbie Abrahams Mystery Squares.
Finish my plain vintage Opal socks and blog about them.
If I accomplish this I'll have finished 3 of my 8 May goals.