I knit me a jersey!

With help and instruction from my hiking partner Lizzy Wenk I knitted myself a jersey (which some might call a sweater, others a pullover or a jumper, and others a four times punctured sphere with non-constant curvature). I started in April or May 2002 (don't remember just when...) and after many hours of knitting, in such places as my house, my office, the La Val's food court at Chaos dinners, Lizzy's apartment and lab, the Mathcamp 2002 office at Colorado College and in a car travelling to and from Joshua Tree I finally finished it in mid-December 2002. Here it is!

[Chris in his jersey]

A second picture, almost exactly the same except that I'm looking to the left instead of right.
Photographic evidence that I held knitting needles at some point.

Credits

So I didn't do quite all of it; Lizzy did some of the harder parts. She

figured out the pattern
cast on the front, back and both sleeves, and knit the first row of each
pulled out five to ten rows with a big grin on her face :) after I made a mistake towards the end of Mathcamp (an edge stitch leapt the knob at the end of the needle and made good its escape, and I didn't notice straight away). If pulling several rows out isn't one of the harder parts I don't know what is! :)
stitched the front and back together, stitched up and attached the right sleeve, and did the neckline.
took the picture above, in her lab.

I knitted each piece and stitched up and attached the left sleeve.

My mother Lesley bought the wool and posted it to me from New Zealand, and housemate Anya, Mathcamp mentor Meep and Chaot Viv gave advice and answered some of my questions at various stages.

14th January 2003