After lots of lovely encouragement from lots of my lovely readers, I put the pieces of the secret sweater in a box – so one squish didn’t give away what it was – and wrapped it up.
As you all predicted, Lovely Husband was very pleased with his bits of sweater. Although he did keep asking ‘It is big enough though, isn’t it?’. I would suggest knitting it too small would be a rookie error, but I’ll keep my mouth shut just in case.
Of course, now the cat was out of the bag – or rather the sweater out of the box – I was free to knit it in front of him. We’d been spending the day at Lovely Littlest’s, so on the drive home I knitted happily away beside him.
Unfortunately, so excited was I about being able to knit without secrecy, I knitted too exuberantly and didn’t realise how much I’d done until I’d knitted twenty or so rows to much! Doh!
Will I ever finish?
Dartmoor Creative 
A wonderful outcome Bekki – well, except for the extra twenty rows……. [Yikes, twenty!!]
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Thank you. I forgot it was the front and carried on knitting it thinking it needed to be as long as the back.
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Hope he had a very Happy Birthday. Glad you had a positive response from him!
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Thank you. He did 🙂
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He must have planted the thought it might be too small in your mind so you accidentally started knitting one of the larger sizes 😉
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Ha ha! Just too big in the wrong direction – maybe I thought he needed a knitted dress 🙂
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Happy knitting, it is really turning out to be an awesome sweater. Each time I see your progress I love it a bit more. If only we had so much more time to just knit so much more. 🙂
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Thank you. Having wasted nearly two hours knitting what I didn’t need to knit, I’m so cross I threw away a big chunk of the knitting time I did have 😦
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I know the feeling. It is still gorgeous, and I absolutely love it.
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A great idea to wrap up the bits! Better than what I did for my hubby. I wrapped up a piece of fabric and a shirt pattern. That was in December and I’ve only got as far as pre washing the fabric. Oops!
So what you’ve accomplished is amazing. I bet he can’t believe how you’ve managed to do so much without him knowing. 😃
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Thank you. I wonder if once they know you loose the impetuous. I didn’t touch the sweater yesterday – although that may be because I really don’t want to frog any rows of knitting.
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Your work is so beautiful – you clearly can’t get enough! lol we have all been reading about the jumper adventure I can’t wait to see a pic of him wearing it! Keep up the knitting!
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Ha ha! And thank you. Feel very near to finishing, but so many other things pressing on my time ATM 😦
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He’s going to love the finished sweater Bekki and it’s going to be gorgeous !
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Thank you. He’d better 😉
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Loving your sweater saga! It has been keeping me most entertained!
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Thank you. Glad to be of use 🙂 Maybe the BBC will turn it into a series 😉
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Sounds like a fun birthday present. The sweater is looking great and now you can leisurely knit around him! Looking forward to seeing the finished sweater. 🙂
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But will that be so much fun?
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Hee hee! There’s no chance of me doing that as I can never wait to start the next project and would hate to lose the time! It’s really looking lovely though.
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Thank you. I’m normally like that. I think it was because I got so much more done than I thought I would the day before, I didn’t realise I was almost ready to divide for the neck when we got in the car to go home.
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It is looking lovely, but I hear you…I despise tearing things out!
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I certainly do – especially when there’s nothing wrong, but that it’s too long 😦 Glad you like it Thank you.
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Great idea to wrap up the pieces, glad your efforts were appreciated.
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Can’t take the credit – Lynn at Tialys first suggested it weeks ago as what to do if I didn’t make it.
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So glad he likes the jumper so far 🙂 rather annoying about the extra twenty rows though! before we know it you’ll have it all finished and a ta-da post to enjoy 🙂
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Let’s hope it’s soon – I’m still tired of an evening, I’ve not even picked it up and keep falling asleep in front of the telly 😦
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Oh no! I didn’t realise you were still getting over that bug! What a rough ole time you’ve had. I do hope you’re soon full of energy again 🙂 x
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I swaer this looks better every time I see it 🙂
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Aw! Thank you. That’s so kind 🙂
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I can’t wait to see the finished item! Now that you don’t have to knit in secret any more I am sure you will breeze through the rest 🙂
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Knitting now finished apart from the collar 🙂 but I’m going to block it before I sew it together, so now waiting for Monday when I can fill the dinning table with blocking matts 🙂
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The sweater looks fabulous and I bet you can’t wait to finish it and get it all sewn up. I love the pattern.
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Thank you. of course the sewing up is the bit we knitters don’t want to do.
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