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Panel 1:
PENNY: (with a forlorn expression) Hrnn...
MARIE: What's wrong, Pen-Pal?
PENNY: It's just this sweater.
Panel 2:
PENNY: I started it before I got on my fitness kick.
MARIE: What's wrong with that?
PENNY: I'm knitting it as a XXXL. I don't want to be that size by the time it's done.
Panel 3:
MARIE: So just knit it the size you want to be.
PENNY: But what if I lose too much? Or not enough? I'd have worked for months on a sweater that I can't wear!
Panel 4:
PENNY: It's like Sophie's Choice!
MARIE: No...It's really not.
PENNY: (with a forlorn expression) Hrnn...
MARIE: What's wrong, Pen-Pal?
PENNY: It's just this sweater.
Panel 2:
PENNY: I started it before I got on my fitness kick.
MARIE: What's wrong with that?
PENNY: I'm knitting it as a XXXL. I don't want to be that size by the time it's done.
Panel 3:
MARIE: So just knit it the size you want to be.
PENNY: But what if I lose too much? Or not enough? I'd have worked for months on a sweater that I can't wear!
Panel 4:
PENNY: It's like Sophie's Choice!
MARIE: No...It's really not.
I can so relate to this dilemma.
Are you peeking into my life? I started a sweater in a 3X size and now am down to a 1X and still losing weight. A FROGGING I WILL GO! But…what size do I make it now? GAH! I am so confused!
I can relate to this… i guess it depends on how fast you knit vs. how fast you’re losing weight. the sweater i’m working on now might be a little on the small side but i’d rather have a more fitted sweater than a baggy one. on the good side, yarn is forgiving in that it stretches so if you make it a little smaller than you are, you can have a tighter fit now and then shrink into it
I don’t know how many times I’ve had to ask someone “You HAVE seen that movie, right?” because of completely inappropriate comparisons to the Choice…”No, having to decide between iced coffee and iced tea is NOT just like Sophie’s Choice! You know what’s just like Sophie’s Choice? Having to decide which of your children gets to die. That’s what’s just like Sophie’s Choice!”
@Bethany…That is what I am planning on doing then. I am making it a size L but it’s a fitted sweater to begin with so it has stretch and will still fit me if I happen to get to a medium just with less stretching to do. I am about 1.5″ larger than the bust size that I am making the sweater and the sweater will fit across 2 sizes (per the instructions) so I think it should be a good size to make it. I doubt I’ll get smaller than a medium since I haven’t been even that size in over 25 years.
This is why I’m not going to knit a sweater until I lose weight. I thought of knitting one a few sizes down, but then I think, “What if I lose weight in my gut, but still have ginormous boobs when I’m done losing weight?” I think frogging my sweater would make me too sad, so I’m just going to wait and knit a sweater when I’m done losing weight. It’ll be a nice little gift for myself!
Anywho, great comic, as always!
As a triple XL myself I’ve never even thought to make a sweater that would actually fit me as I am. All the extra yarn needed to cover my butt makes it cost so much more and take more time. :/ Kudos to the big gals that have the patience and money to make themselves one though. XD Although knitting garments for oneself in the process of losing weight seems silly and if you were already knitting it and then started losing weight… I guess either frog it if you have the heart for that or finish it for a friend instead. Maybe have it as a baggy sweater for around the house or something. If you’re doing it from the bottom up you could make a wide neckline and have one of those off the shoulder numbers.
Yeah, people who compare ‘Sophie’s Choice’ to the petty inconveniences we all experience remind of that joke. About the guy who was such a narcissist he was accused of having his head stuck so far up his own ass, that if you handed him a light, he could do his own colonoscopy.
The solution is SIMPLE: finish the sweater in the original size, then give it to someone that size. There are plenty of XXXLs in the world who would love a handmade sweater.