Progress on the Grey Belt

I pulled out boyfriend's grey belt again last week and have been working on it for hours most days. I have come to a new level of annoyance with these small needles because after the first day when I worked on it for about ten hours, I found it had only grown about ten inches. I'm not going to pretend that I wasn't also cooking and watching tv and trying to pick up a little in that time, but still.

As for technicalities, I realized in my last post about the sash that I neglected to say it is 15 stitches across and the yarn is Red Heart Super Saver Charcoal. I know I'm lousy about saying what type of yarn I'm using, but I'm trying to remember. One would think that it would be pretty quick work, but it is not so! So I'm soldiering on. I think it will be nice once it is finished, even if I suspect I'm going to have to put the gold tassels on myself. I also think it will be a while before it's finished. Like next March for the season opener for boyfriend's LARP thing a while. I know last year I said I hoped to have it finished for Christmas or at least March, but this time I mean it.

It's over two feet long now, and I imagine he's going to want it to be about five or six feet. Then again, I'm not really sure. I guess I could measure him to see how long it ought to be from shoulder across the torso to the hip and then back up across the back to the shoulder again, or I could just keep knitting and every foot or two hold it up to him and check it out. Let's be serious: it's going to be the latter. I think he wants to be able to wear it as a sash and a belt which is going to affect length because it can't dangle too long as a belt, and I imagine it will need to be pretty snug as a sash, but obviously those are two different lengths. The reason for those specification is that while he's wearing it he's going to be fighting. I almost put quotation around fighting, but I think he would have been offended if he ever saw it. The reason is is this LARP thing; well, it's where everyone dresses up (hence the sash that will be part of his garb or costume) and hits each other with foam weapons like foam swords and even foam-tipped arrows that they shoot out of real bows. There are all kinds of specifications of which I'm unsure, though not as unsure as I wish I were, and I won't go into them here, but I wanted to give an idea of what this project was for. Hats and scarves and headbands have obvious uses, so I didn't need to extrapolate, but with this sash, I felt as though I did because it's use isn't as clear.

Happy knitting!