Second Year of Projects Week 7

I've finished my Ravellenic Games sweater! It was completed at 9:45 on Friday, and I'm pretty pleased with all said.

I had to close up a couple of holes under the armpits where I picked up my stitches, but other than that, I think it looks good. Because the yarn contains mohair, the jumper has a slight halo to it which make it warm and soft. And I didn't run out of yarn! In fact, I only used 301g, though I did have to break into the 4th ball for that extra gram which was a  bit annoying. This is pretty incredible, as it's only my second sweater, my first top down, and the first sweater took me over a year to finish, can't believe I managed it in two weeks! I think my Mum will be really excited when she opens it on Christmas, since it's exactly what she asked for, quite long,not tight but not baggy and 3/4 sleeves

I've also finished a second Ravellenic Games project, though it's not quite the calibre of the first. A bit of background: for the first three years of my course I was based at one hospital, and I moved to another at the start of this year, but last week was my paediatric surgery week, so I was back at my original hospital. This meant that I got a chance to bob in to the NICU, and ask them what knitted items they really needed. The answer was very small blue cardigans, which they are really short of. So as soon as I finished Mum's sweater, I cast one on.

Pencil is for scale, so you can see how tiny it needed to be. The yarn was sent by a Ravelry member who was having a clear out of baby yarn, so I'm really grateful to her. It's very soft, and I should get 4 of these cardigans out of the 100g, so they'll be really appreciated. I've also got some blue scraps, so I'll probably make a stripy one as well.

It's been a really busy week this week, as well as having an essay to write and a presentation to do (I got 83% by the way, and did get it finished in time), I've been in 7 days this week, with some late nights through the week, emergency surgery on Friday and then1-9 in Children's Emergency Department last night, and back in this morning from 9-1. I need to sleep! Surgery was incredible, it's amazing the surgery they can do on really tiny babies and the differences they can make to children's lives. I also watched the removal of a googly eye from a 2 year old's oesophagus, which was quite amusing, and he was none the worse for wear for having swallowed it! CED was also interesting, it's amazing how happy kids can be with lumps the size of eggs on their heads, and how worried they can make their parents. Just to reassure you, everybody was fine, and went home with various plasters and painkillers. But after all that, I need to sleep, I'm so glad I have a day off tomorrow!

I am missing updating this blog though, I only seem to post on Sundays at the moment, but I just have so little time. I'm going to try make the effort to do at least one post during the week as well, so I don't have to add the medical stuff in with the year of projects, since I'm sure people come for knitting, not hospital stories!