Legend has it that one of the quickest ways to ruin a relationship is for one partner to begin constructing a hand-knit sweater for the other. It's called the "sweater curse," and it's not something that knitters take lightly.
About a year ago, I decided to risk it and start on my honey's first knit-with-love sweater. He requested a "Charlie Brown sweater," complete with zigzag stripe. I know my FH better than he does, so I decided make the sweater blue instead of mustard yellow—I'm not spending months (ahem, years) knitting something he'll never wear. It started as a Christmas Sweater, then a Birthday Sweater, then a Valentine's Day Sweater ... now I think it might make a nice Wedding Sweater. (If I can get all of my other wedding projects in order first.)
The sweater hasn't damaged our relationship (afterall, he did propose to me about six months after I started it), but I think on a subconscious level I'm putting it off until after it's official—ring on finger, game over, until death do we part ... then sweater. (That's my story and I'm sticking to it.) I think I'll go knit now.
Has anyone else had encountered the elusive sweater curse?
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