I think there needs to be a new category of knitting. We have unfinished objects and finished objects. But what about almost finished objects?

You know the ones. They’re sitting in your knitting basket right now, languishing. They’re knitted, off the needles, ready to go except….you need to weave in the ends. Block them. Sew them together.

They’re almost finished objects.

Here’s one of my AFOs. It’s Soleil from Knitty, and here it is pre-blocking:

And here it is again, ready to be steamed blocked. It’s the first time I’ll be steam blocking, so wish me luck!
And here’s a UFO for you. Under the Hoodie from Stitch n Bitch. This is a close up of the colors; I had taken a picture of what I had finished, but I have to email the pictures to myself because palm pilot won’t let me save them directly to where I want them, and it got lost somewhere between Outlook and Gmail.

I’ve finished the front and back, sewn them together, and knit the hood. I just have to finish the sleeves. Isn’t it pretty?
I hit a snag with the sleeves. At one point the yarn got so tangled I had to cut it and start again (I’m knitting both sleeves at once using a circular needle). BUT when I did that, I accidently switched the balls of yarn. And even though they’re the same dye lot, they’re slightly different shades of turquoise.

I briefly considered ripping it out and starting again, but then I came to my sense. The line between the colors is at the exact same place on both sleeves, so if worse comes to worse, I’ll play it off as a design element. Honestly? I don’t think anyone but me will notice.