It's all downhill from here

Okay, I'm all done grumbling about my current knitting projects.  Both the Klaus sweater and the Antonia Shawl are over the halfway point.  Although I must say it felt good to get it out of my system yesterday.  After writing that post, I knit my fingers off and finished the sleeves on my hubby's sweater.  I'm so close to being done now that I can taste it . . . or smell it.  Umm, wait, actually I think that is just the smell of mushrooms still clinging to the mushroom-dyed yarn.  I'll need to find some nicely scented wool wash to wash the sweater when it is all done.  Any suggestions?

I mentioned before that the sweater pattern has unusual one-piece construction.  Here is a picture of it in it's current state so you can see for yourself:

Now when I fold it over I'm starting to see what it will look like when it is done:

And all I have left to knit is the easy part . . . just the stockinette portion down the back:

Same goes with the Antonia Shawl, just the easy part is remaining:

You can see that the border was the most intricate part of the pattern.  And now that I am nearing the top each row has fewer stitches and fewer lace repeats.  I can't wait to see what it looks like when it is finished and blocked.

I would say that I'm going to cruise through finishing up both of these but that would probably be cursing myself to some weird knitting mishap!  Instead, I will just suggest that you go see what some other talented knitters are up to on this WIP Wednesday!