Every year the CBC, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (my favourite broadcasting company) hosts a challenge... nay a Battle of Epic proportions. The Canada Reads competition. In a Survivor-esque fashion, five panelists each choose one Canadian book to defend and debate over the series of five shows. At the end of each show, there is a vote to see which book is placed on the chopping block - to get the old heave ho.
Why am I telling you this? After all, what does this have to do with knitting? Well, shortly after the competition ended and a winner emerged, I visited my local library to check out as many of the contenders as I could get my hands on. When my Girl Friday sweater project was pitted against Marina Endicott's Good to a Fault, the book almost always won my time. Hands down.
This leaves me with little progress to report on my sweater.
It's been nearly a month since my last post, and although my progress has not entirely stalled, it is really slow going. I finished the front panels and have started the sleeves (pictured above). Like the front panels, I'm knitting them at the same time for the same reasons. Because they're knit from the cuff upward, I started with a provisional cast on, just in case they're not long enough.
Up next: Wayson Choy's The Jade Peony. Let's hope my knitting fairs a bit better with this one!
If you're interested, details about the competition can be found here . Sadly the winner, Nikolski by Nicolas Dicker, had already been checked out of the library. Not to worry, I'm keeping a close eye to see when I can get my hands on it!
