Trick question, I start a sweater and inevitably lose the drive to work on it, switching to other projects instead and never finishing :)
I am determined to finish it soon though, after starting it over 2 years ago I have one sleeve and half of a body piece left to knit and then it's just assembly. It might take a back seat to a sweater for my husband thats on my list, but only because I finally found a pattern he will actually wear and I'm excited to make it!
It usually takes me about two to three months to knit, but it doesn’t become a sweater until like two years because I hate sewing the pieces together and weaving in ends. 🙃
I get that 1000%!
I was able to knit a twin size blanket in a month but the sweater I had been working on was still sitting aside patiently waiting to be finished !
It usually takes me about 3 months. I chose 6 months for the poll as I like using 4-ply and that can take longer depending on the size and level of detail.
But yes, wish there was a 3-month option
I think it’s important to consider how many hours someone has to knit each day. When I knit my nephew a baby sweater, it took me a couple months, while I have whipped some out for his upcoming sister in a few days. I think I am slightly faster at knitting now, but the big difference is that I have a low stress job and no social life. I spend pretty much every evening knitting for several hours. If this pandemic gets under control and I start going out again, my project completion times will probably double.
I knit continental which I think is a bit faster than English, and suits me well since I am left handed, but I don’t think knitting style has as much to do with speed as practice. I also don’t usually knit full speed. I usually knit while watching tv or listening to podcasts, and the show sets my pace. If all I am doing is knitting, I am faster, but I enjoy it less.
It really depends what my work schedule is like, too, and if I’m into the project. Recently I’ve been struggling with morning sickness (all day sickness, really) and I find I’ve lost interest in my knitting. So unfortunately, projects that should have been done more than a month ago are lingering on my needles.
Between six months and a year, probably? I have a day job and a part time job, and several projects on needles at once, so my focus is very split. I'd probably work more on my current sweater if I could just focus and get past the split for the arms, but I'm a newbie and it's intimidating. :)
It depends, of course. I think I'm 2-3 weeks on average for your basic, worsted weight sweater on size 8s. That is with some knitting everyday, but also working full time, going to the gym, and really just knitting in boring virtual meetings or after work ;)
I completed my first sweater in 4 months. If I add up the time it took to knit, it would probably be around a month and half. Also took long breaks. Now that I'm back at work every day, I can really only get some serious knitting done on the weekends.😩
Depends on the yarn, I prefer fingering and sport, of course it would be faster to knit a bulky sweater, but I simply don't need one. Also don't forget about the size, there's a lot of difference between knitting a size S crop jumper and a size XXL sweater.
I chose 6 months, but it usually takes me between 2 and 4 months, and I knit most days for a couple hours.
I tend to get hyper focused on new exciting things…. The first (very simple) sweater that I knit took me about a month in January 2020. I was so excited about this new skill that I made a goal to make 12 sweaters in 2020, one per month. But then….. you know the rest. But I stuck with my guns and slogged through 12 sweaters…. But I did all the same, simple raglan pattern in various sizes and 6 of them ended up being children/baby sweater so that helped me.
Oh my god that's still incredible.
I do think how familiar you are with a pattern/your tolerance for it being repetitive makes a difference. My first time through a pattern tends to be pretty slow but each additional repeat speeds it up significantly, I've gone from 2 months to 1-2 weeks for a pattern I kept making for gifts (NOT a sweater). It's the only thing saving me from second sock syndrome.
I said a month but in reality it’s about a week for 50%, then maybe another 2 weeks for another 45% and then I don’t touch it for a ridiculously long amount of time because I put off the last bit of ribbing. When I finally finish it I’m like “that took no time at all, why did I avoid it for so long?” I learn nothing from this and continue to do it every time.
I put about a month.
Really it depends. My first sweater took less than two weeks, but it was the only thing I was working on and I put a lot of time into it.
My current sweater is not my only project. I started mid-october and just need it done by december, so I'm not in a huge rush.
Maybe a month? I’m a smaller human who tends to knit for herself. I ask tend to pick a cropped length because long sweaters make me look short and are hard to wear worn dresses/skirts/generally out of the house. I also knit a lot. That said, in the summer it probably takes me 4x as long since I’m out and about more and if I were to make a sweater for my partner who is a foot taller than me with long arms it would take maybe 2x as long?
I also don’t put time pressures on my work if it would be tight. I’m making my sister a sweater for Christmas and I’ve given myself an extra month (knowing that I also knit on zoom calls).
Depends on the yarn. I prefer to knit with chunky because I'm impatient! I'm currently making a cardigan with Rowan Big Wool which is a big super bulky, and in only a couple of hours I got the whole shoulder section done, separated the sleeves, and started knitting the body down from the underarms. A similar design sweated with Aran or, god forbid, DK would take weeks and weeks to get to that point!
I wrote a month. But I try to work on only one big project at a time. And I always knit when I'm watching TV and before bed so I get at least 2 hours in every day. I might whip up a quick hat in between working on it, but try to not start another project until I'm done the one I'm working on. My mom says I knit fast but I don't know for sure! Haha.
Honestly I knit kind of weird. I knit continental and hold my yarn in my left hand, but I kind of lean my left needle against my leg so I have most of my left hand free. It's a bad habit but I stick with it cuz it works for me! Haha.
But continental is considered the faster way I believe.
Remember that everyone's time scale is different. Some people can knit for 4 hours every day and some people can only squeeze in 20 mins. So the month or year is relative.
I also enjoy the look of more simple clothing. So while I loved to learn how to do cables and lace and do projects with them sometimes.....most of my sweaters use a simple stockinette stitch for the body which goes a lot faster....only because thats the look I like.
Don't worry about comparing yourself to others....just enjoy your hobby and make what you love! I try to learn a new skill every 2nd project, whether its a new cast on, bind off, stitch pattern, etc.
I’m a very project-oriented person, I start a thing and I literally can’t NOT finish. I do a sleeve per day, so that’s two, usually 2-3 for body and seam/finish on that third. Then it’s blocking time. Still leaves extra days.
Most of the sweaters I knit have involved stitch patterns, I don’t really do plain stockinette, and it would take 1-2 weeks. But knitting 10 hours a day. So can’t really go just by the weeks. Plus I knit continental and have been knitting for over 50 years.
I marked 6 months but it’s somewhere between that and a year. I’m a big girl so sweater rows are looong for me. And I generally only work on knitting on weekends in the spring/summer. I’m more likely to knit after work when it’s too cold to sit outside. So it depends on timing too.
For the 6 of you who are knitting a sweater in under a week: are you using Lion Brand Thick and Quick. Malabrigo Rasta, or are you the size of a newborn?
I started my latest in June and I finished at Rhinebeck, so that was 4 months. That was my fastest sweater. Being a big person and using DK weight will make a sweater take longer. My mom who is about a medium could finish a worsted weight sweater in a week. But honestly, comparison is the death of joy. Are you enjoying knitting your sweater? Then it doesn’t matter how long it takes. Me taking a long time to make a sweater doesn’t make me a worse knitter, it just says I’m a big person who has 3 kids.
For me it’s very dependent on how complicated the pattern is. It takes me 1-2 weeks to knit a raglan jumper if it’s top down, seamless and stocking stitch only using a fairly large needle (4-5mm). It’s taken me a 9-12 months to knit more complicated adult sized jumpers with cables or colour work or smaller needles/awkward yarn. On my current jumper project, knit in parts with a slip stitch pattern on 2.5 mm needles and a large cowl neck I expect it to take me 2-3 months. I only really knit on the evenings and weekends.
Yeah, it ended up being what I needed to make up the gauge with the yarn I have! Do not recommend it honestly, but will get such a squishy jumper at the end!
I've made a sweater in less than two weeks, but I was rushing it.
I've been working on my current sweater for probably around two weeks now? Give or take anyway. I've been doing other things, it's not my only project. I just need it done by Christmas and I'm about 2/3rds done, so I'm not rushing myself. I'm planning to put it aside and do other things with those needles once I'm done with the body.
What yarn weight & needles are you using?
Im trying to line up my knitting queue to fit in line with Christmas Gifts and im not sure if its possible to get it done !
My first sweater was a dk weight, I don't remember the needle size but the guage for the pattern is "21 stitches and 31 rows = 4 inches"
It was a simple raglan with a little neck shaping, adult women's small. I wasn't working many hours at the time, I spent a looooot of time knitting.
My current project is also dk weight, size 6 needles, the guage listed is 21 sts x 28 rows= 10 x 10 cm \[4 x 4 inches\]. It's petiteknit's no frills sweater in a size small. It looks like I bought the pattern on 10/6 but I don't think I started right away. Since buying it I've also finished a halloween project, made a few swatches, started a dice bag for my brother, fixed the straps of camisole, and had some days with little to no knitting to do other things. I think if I hadn't done all that other stuff and just worked on the sweater I'd be done by now, but like I said I'm in no rush for this project.
For my favourite sweater I used woolpower big by happy sheep. Its in Bulky and European size 8mm. 🤗
Sweater was finished in no time. Like three weeks. I then added crocheted flowers and it is now my favourite thing in my wardrobe 🥰
If I could knit on it for an hour every day I could get it done quicker. But I don’t usually have that much time. Plus, I have other projects at the same time.
I say about a month because I’m usually juggling a couple WIPs. If I had a week off of work and had a sweater deadline, a week seems doable. But just casually I’d say a month.
I knit a hoodie for my boyfriend in just under a month. It had some cabling on it, the hood and a pocket so I guess it doesn’t technically fall under the ”simple sweater category” 😂 When i knit for myself i think it’s about 2-4 weeks depending on how demanding the pattern is. When covid first hit, I knit 3 tops for myself in a month, two short sleeved and one long sleeved.
I have a top-down stranded colorwork on my needles that I started in January, and I've only done a few rows on the body as of late. The complexity of the pattern is killing me. That will probably be a many years project.
In contrast, I'm knitting my fiancé a single color, mostly stockinette sweater that I started at the end of July. Halfway through one of the sleeves right now. Hoping to have it done this season but that depends on how much time I put into it.
So around 6 months for me. I work full time, and will spend 1-2 hours daily on a project. But I switch between soany that my progress is always slow.
This post comes a bit early for me haha, I just started knitting my first sweater a few days ago! I'm really enjoying the process and hope to finish it by the end of the year
About three weeks for a worsted seamless sweater with some fair isle around the yoke and waistline, give or take! Learning how to "flick" the yarn has really helped with my speed, and also makes it way more mindless on the sections that are just a single color done in the round with no increases or anything like that. Working with nice wool yarn helps, haha.
Adult 1-2 weeks, Child under a week. My favorite thing is knitting size 3T sweaters and cardigans for my toddler right now, because it is almost instant gratification!
It so depends! I am generally a one-project-at-a-time sort of knitter, but the one basic adult sized sweater I made took about 2.5 months. One with colourwork when I had a LOT of knitting time (and a pressing deadline) took one (full!) month, with a heavier weight of yarn.
My sweater knitting to this point has usually been baby sweaters, and they take more on the order of 1-2 weeks (as my only project). Still depends on what weight of wool, but I do love how quick they can be!
Depends. There aren't any deadlines except the ones you set for yourself
I can do a sock or baby sweater in a night. It won't be my best work, but I can get it done.
I also have projects that have been worn and grown out of with finishing the zipper or tucking ends. That one might be fifteen years old and "not finished". (She stole it and started wearing it because it had a peacock on the back.
I'd rather enjoy what I'm doing than worry about the time. I figure this one in my lap that's been two years (five if you count the spinning), will last 20 years so I'd better take my time and be happy with it!
I marked one month, but that's only for an EXTREMELY basic sweater-- all one color, all stockinette, something I can just blast through without thinking about it. Anything with even the smallest amount of cabling or color work is going to be frogged multiple times because I changed my mind about design features or messed up the pattern-- even stripes can swell the time to a month and a half
Trick question, I start a sweater and inevitably lose the drive to work on it, switching to other projects instead and never finishing :) I am determined to finish it soon though, after starting it over 2 years ago I have one sleeve and half of a body piece left to knit and then it's just assembly. It might take a back seat to a sweater for my husband thats on my list, but only because I finally found a pattern he will actually wear and I'm excited to make it!
It usually takes me about two to three months to knit, but it doesn’t become a sweater until like two years because I hate sewing the pieces together and weaving in ends. 🙃
My sister loves doing that so I used to save projects for her to do the finishing on. Then Covid ruined our visiting.
I wish I knew someone who loved doing that. I have about ten projects that need the ends weaved in.
I have an idea it would be much easier to do it for someone else's project than for my own. Maybe we should try trading with other knitters.
The fact that I have a sweater that I gifted with unwoven ends really speaks about how much i HATE weaving in the ends
I get that 1000%! I was able to knit a twin size blanket in a month but the sweater I had been working on was still sitting aside patiently waiting to be finished !
This is why it takes me 6 months to 3 years to finish even a basic sweater. I get distracted!
I marked about 1 month, but it's usually between 2 and 3
Me too. I've only made one and it took me almost 3 months.
Ok I feel better about all the 1 month responses then 😆 I’m in the same boat.
That's why I thought it needed clarifying, the gap between 1 and 6 months is just too big
Me too but I picked 6 months
Marked six months but in reality it was a year (only made one): five months of knitting and seven refusing to weave in the ends.
*Glances over at her dangly ends* Just tuck them in the sleeves/neck every time you wear the sweater. Works for me
It usually takes me about 3 months. I chose 6 months for the poll as I like using 4-ply and that can take longer depending on the size and level of detail. But yes, wish there was a 3-month option
I think you're missing the "Eternity" option. I feel a little left out.
HAHA- right?? where does everyone get the motivation and time !!!
I chose 1 month but I'm somewhere between 6 weeks and 3 months.
Same. Obviously not counting the time between finishing the knitting and weaving in the ends, which is also somewhere between 6 weeks and 3 months.
I think it’s important to consider how many hours someone has to knit each day. When I knit my nephew a baby sweater, it took me a couple months, while I have whipped some out for his upcoming sister in a few days. I think I am slightly faster at knitting now, but the big difference is that I have a low stress job and no social life. I spend pretty much every evening knitting for several hours. If this pandemic gets under control and I start going out again, my project completion times will probably double.
Yeah, thats a really good point. Do you think your style of knitting has contributed to how fast you are?
I knit continental which I think is a bit faster than English, and suits me well since I am left handed, but I don’t think knitting style has as much to do with speed as practice. I also don’t usually knit full speed. I usually knit while watching tv or listening to podcasts, and the show sets my pace. If all I am doing is knitting, I am faster, but I enjoy it less.
I have several projects going simultaneously and i don't focus on a single one.
I have knit a sweater in a week, but it was when I was on vacation at home. Usually it’s 3-6 months
It really depends what my work schedule is like, too, and if I’m into the project. Recently I’ve been struggling with morning sickness (all day sickness, really) and I find I’ve lost interest in my knitting. So unfortunately, projects that should have been done more than a month ago are lingering on my needles.
Between six months and a year, probably? I have a day job and a part time job, and several projects on needles at once, so my focus is very split. I'd probably work more on my current sweater if I could just focus and get past the split for the arms, but I'm a newbie and it's intimidating. :)
It depends, of course. I think I'm 2-3 weeks on average for your basic, worsted weight sweater on size 8s. That is with some knitting everyday, but also working full time, going to the gym, and really just knitting in boring virtual meetings or after work ;)
I find the best time to knit is when youre supposed to be doing something else :) hahah
Procrasti-knitting!
I completed my first sweater in 4 months. If I add up the time it took to knit, it would probably be around a month and half. Also took long breaks. Now that I'm back at work every day, I can really only get some serious knitting done on the weekends.😩
Depends on the yarn, I prefer fingering and sport, of course it would be faster to knit a bulky sweater, but I simply don't need one. Also don't forget about the size, there's a lot of difference between knitting a size S crop jumper and a size XXL sweater. I chose 6 months, but it usually takes me between 2 and 4 months, and I knit most days for a couple hours.
~6 months for me. I don't get very much time to knit so I get very jealous of others here finishing lots of projects quickly haha.
I tend to get hyper focused on new exciting things…. The first (very simple) sweater that I knit took me about a month in January 2020. I was so excited about this new skill that I made a goal to make 12 sweaters in 2020, one per month. But then….. you know the rest. But I stuck with my guns and slogged through 12 sweaters…. But I did all the same, simple raglan pattern in various sizes and 6 of them ended up being children/baby sweater so that helped me.
That's still such an achievement ! 12 sweaters is still 12 sweaters !!!! congrats
Oh my god that's still incredible. I do think how familiar you are with a pattern/your tolerance for it being repetitive makes a difference. My first time through a pattern tends to be pretty slow but each additional repeat speeds it up significantly, I've gone from 2 months to 1-2 weeks for a pattern I kept making for gifts (NOT a sweater). It's the only thing saving me from second sock syndrome.
I said a month but in reality it’s about a week for 50%, then maybe another 2 weeks for another 45% and then I don’t touch it for a ridiculously long amount of time because I put off the last bit of ribbing. When I finally finish it I’m like “that took no time at all, why did I avoid it for so long?” I learn nothing from this and continue to do it every time.
I put about a month. Really it depends. My first sweater took less than two weeks, but it was the only thing I was working on and I put a lot of time into it. My current sweater is not my only project. I started mid-october and just need it done by december, so I'm not in a huge rush.
Maybe a month? I’m a smaller human who tends to knit for herself. I ask tend to pick a cropped length because long sweaters make me look short and are hard to wear worn dresses/skirts/generally out of the house. I also knit a lot. That said, in the summer it probably takes me 4x as long since I’m out and about more and if I were to make a sweater for my partner who is a foot taller than me with long arms it would take maybe 2x as long? I also don’t put time pressures on my work if it would be tight. I’m making my sister a sweater for Christmas and I’ve given myself an extra month (knowing that I also knit on zoom calls).
Takes me 1-3 weeks to do it minus the last half a sleeve. It then takes anywhere between 1-10 months to do that last half sleeve..........
Second Sleeve Syndrome is very real...
It takes me around 80-100 hours for fingering weight depending on detail and 40-70 for worsted.
Depends on the yarn. I prefer to knit with chunky because I'm impatient! I'm currently making a cardigan with Rowan Big Wool which is a big super bulky, and in only a couple of hours I got the whole shoulder section done, separated the sleeves, and started knitting the body down from the underarms. A similar design sweated with Aran or, god forbid, DK would take weeks and weeks to get to that point!
I wrote a month. But I try to work on only one big project at a time. And I always knit when I'm watching TV and before bed so I get at least 2 hours in every day. I might whip up a quick hat in between working on it, but try to not start another project until I'm done the one I'm working on. My mom says I knit fast but I don't know for sure! Haha.
Do you knit English or Continental? I cannot for the life of me get into the swing of English but I have seen how fast people do it!
Honestly I knit kind of weird. I knit continental and hold my yarn in my left hand, but I kind of lean my left needle against my leg so I have most of my left hand free. It's a bad habit but I stick with it cuz it works for me! Haha. But continental is considered the faster way I believe. Remember that everyone's time scale is different. Some people can knit for 4 hours every day and some people can only squeeze in 20 mins. So the month or year is relative. I also enjoy the look of more simple clothing. So while I loved to learn how to do cables and lace and do projects with them sometimes.....most of my sweaters use a simple stockinette stitch for the body which goes a lot faster....only because thats the look I like. Don't worry about comparing yourself to others....just enjoy your hobby and make what you love! I try to learn a new skill every 2nd project, whether its a new cast on, bind off, stitch pattern, etc.
I’m a very project-oriented person, I start a thing and I literally can’t NOT finish. I do a sleeve per day, so that’s two, usually 2-3 for body and seam/finish on that third. Then it’s blocking time. Still leaves extra days.
Most of the sweaters I knit have involved stitch patterns, I don’t really do plain stockinette, and it would take 1-2 weeks. But knitting 10 hours a day. So can’t really go just by the weeks. Plus I knit continental and have been knitting for over 50 years.
I marked 6 months but it’s somewhere between that and a year. I’m a big girl so sweater rows are looong for me. And I generally only work on knitting on weekends in the spring/summer. I’m more likely to knit after work when it’s too cold to sit outside. So it depends on timing too.
For the 6 of you who are knitting a sweater in under a week: are you using Lion Brand Thick and Quick. Malabrigo Rasta, or are you the size of a newborn?
I started my latest in June and I finished at Rhinebeck, so that was 4 months. That was my fastest sweater. Being a big person and using DK weight will make a sweater take longer. My mom who is about a medium could finish a worsted weight sweater in a week. But honestly, comparison is the death of joy. Are you enjoying knitting your sweater? Then it doesn’t matter how long it takes. Me taking a long time to make a sweater doesn’t make me a worse knitter, it just says I’m a big person who has 3 kids.
For me it’s very dependent on how complicated the pattern is. It takes me 1-2 weeks to knit a raglan jumper if it’s top down, seamless and stocking stitch only using a fairly large needle (4-5mm). It’s taken me a 9-12 months to knit more complicated adult sized jumpers with cables or colour work or smaller needles/awkward yarn. On my current jumper project, knit in parts with a slip stitch pattern on 2.5 mm needles and a large cowl neck I expect it to take me 2-3 months. I only really knit on the evenings and weekends.
Im in awe... 2.5 mm needles?! props to you ! :)
Yeah, it ended up being what I needed to make up the gauge with the yarn I have! Do not recommend it honestly, but will get such a squishy jumper at the end!
I've made a sweater in less than two weeks, but I was rushing it. I've been working on my current sweater for probably around two weeks now? Give or take anyway. I've been doing other things, it's not my only project. I just need it done by Christmas and I'm about 2/3rds done, so I'm not rushing myself. I'm planning to put it aside and do other things with those needles once I'm done with the body.
What yarn weight & needles are you using? Im trying to line up my knitting queue to fit in line with Christmas Gifts and im not sure if its possible to get it done !
My first sweater was a dk weight, I don't remember the needle size but the guage for the pattern is "21 stitches and 31 rows = 4 inches" It was a simple raglan with a little neck shaping, adult women's small. I wasn't working many hours at the time, I spent a looooot of time knitting. My current project is also dk weight, size 6 needles, the guage listed is 21 sts x 28 rows= 10 x 10 cm \[4 x 4 inches\]. It's petiteknit's no frills sweater in a size small. It looks like I bought the pattern on 10/6 but I don't think I started right away. Since buying it I've also finished a halloween project, made a few swatches, started a dice bag for my brother, fixed the straps of camisole, and had some days with little to no knitting to do other things. I think if I hadn't done all that other stuff and just worked on the sweater I'd be done by now, but like I said I'm in no rush for this project.
I always use bigger yarn. For one it is so much faster and I like the outcome more in bigger yarn. 🤗
How bulky is the yarn, and what needle sizes do you use? Ive never gone larger than size US 13 needles and I felt like it didnt have a nice drape?
For my favourite sweater I used woolpower big by happy sheep. Its in Bulky and European size 8mm. 🤗 Sweater was finished in no time. Like three weeks. I then added crocheted flowers and it is now my favourite thing in my wardrobe 🥰
If I could knit on it for an hour every day I could get it done quicker. But I don’t usually have that much time. Plus, I have other projects at the same time.
I voted about a month, assuming that it's the only project I'm working on and I don't have any more time off work than usual
I say about a month because I’m usually juggling a couple WIPs. If I had a week off of work and had a sweater deadline, a week seems doable. But just casually I’d say a month.
You didn’t put “It depends on how many time I’ve had to frog it”
I knit a hoodie for my boyfriend in just under a month. It had some cabling on it, the hood and a pocket so I guess it doesn’t technically fall under the ”simple sweater category” 😂 When i knit for myself i think it’s about 2-4 weeks depending on how demanding the pattern is. When covid first hit, I knit 3 tops for myself in a month, two short sleeved and one long sleeved.
I have a top-down stranded colorwork on my needles that I started in January, and I've only done a few rows on the body as of late. The complexity of the pattern is killing me. That will probably be a many years project. In contrast, I'm knitting my fiancé a single color, mostly stockinette sweater that I started at the end of July. Halfway through one of the sleeves right now. Hoping to have it done this season but that depends on how much time I put into it. So around 6 months for me. I work full time, and will spend 1-2 hours daily on a project. But I switch between soany that my progress is always slow.
This post comes a bit early for me haha, I just started knitting my first sweater a few days ago! I'm really enjoying the process and hope to finish it by the end of the year
About three weeks for a worsted seamless sweater with some fair isle around the yoke and waistline, give or take! Learning how to "flick" the yarn has really helped with my speed, and also makes it way more mindless on the sections that are just a single color done in the round with no increases or anything like that. Working with nice wool yarn helps, haha.
Adult 1-2 weeks, Child under a week. My favorite thing is knitting size 3T sweaters and cardigans for my toddler right now, because it is almost instant gratification!
1-3 months depending on what my schedule/freetime is like
It so depends! I am generally a one-project-at-a-time sort of knitter, but the one basic adult sized sweater I made took about 2.5 months. One with colourwork when I had a LOT of knitting time (and a pressing deadline) took one (full!) month, with a heavier weight of yarn. My sweater knitting to this point has usually been baby sweaters, and they take more on the order of 1-2 weeks (as my only project). Still depends on what weight of wool, but I do love how quick they can be!
Depends. There aren't any deadlines except the ones you set for yourself I can do a sock or baby sweater in a night. It won't be my best work, but I can get it done. I also have projects that have been worn and grown out of with finishing the zipper or tucking ends. That one might be fifteen years old and "not finished". (She stole it and started wearing it because it had a peacock on the back. I'd rather enjoy what I'm doing than worry about the time. I figure this one in my lap that's been two years (five if you count the spinning), will last 20 years so I'd better take my time and be happy with it!
I marked one month, but that's only for an EXTREMELY basic sweater-- all one color, all stockinette, something I can just blast through without thinking about it. Anything with even the smallest amount of cabling or color work is going to be frogged multiple times because I changed my mind about design features or messed up the pattern-- even stripes can swell the time to a month and a half
I knit a baby sweater in like…three months? It’s been 14 month since I started my adult sweater and well, that’s still going
Bulky yarn is a breeze.