Hello. First time visiting your blog I believe.
Maybe after you get that ginormous sweater of stockingnette done your hubby won't request anything for awhile...maybe lol. I do hope he appreciates all the work that will be going into it :o) (I'm sure he will). Maybe he'd settle for mittens or gloves with winter coming on in a few more months? If so, I've got a mitten/glove KAL going on (the first I've ever done) if you'd like to join. All knitters are welcome to join. The button/link can be found on the sidebar in my blog if you are interested.
Just to warn you, Mr. FGK has had a sweater, that I lovingly knit for him back before we married, languishing in a drawer. It's nearly plain, just a little cable knot in the center. It's probably the only thing that still fits him after 16 years and he never wears it. He does complain that knitting has taken me away from us and I then refer to his equivalents of reading, football, etc. I did make him socks for camping and will try a nice soft scarf soon but really, as long as that sweater stays in the drawer, I won't knit him another one. The uncomplaining dog will get a sweater soon though.
Hee hee! Time to buy a knitting machine if you must make a stockinette sweater for that large a guy. I've only knit my man a pair of socks (that he won't wear - they're too nice, WTF?) He thankfully doesn't wear sweaters, and the only thing he's ever actually asked for is a hat, but I have yet to do that for him.
Um.... good luck with that.
You have my sympathies.
Holy cow, I've had that very same conversation recently! Except I got more indignation than puppy-dog eyes during the course of it. 
He's 6'7"? Seriously? I can only imagine the socks he would require. Shudder! At least he didn't ask for those.
Oh dude. I feel your pain. Well, mostly...my hub is only 6'2". I made him the Knitting Pure and Simple roll-neck pullover several years ago in plain gray yarn. It got a few wearings the first winter he had it, but ever since it has languished in a drawer. Ditto for the plain blue socks I made the year before that. Men. Sheesh.
6'7" you say. Navy blue plain stockinette. Good Luck with that.
Don't do it. He doesn't realize what he's asking.
At the very least, negotiate for some cabling. A Lavold Viking knit might suit his masculine dignity. Try out a swatch and see if he doesn't like it.
Ha - been there, done that. I feel your pain...............please tell B that I almost died of boredom knitting a similar plain, soft, just-for-me sweater for Bob. Yes, almost died. Really.
I think that the dog looks more needy than any human. . . you should make him a sweater instead. I couldn't resist those eyes -- it's a good thing that only dogs and toddlers have big sad eyes like that when they really, really want something (and that, usually, it's a need you can quickly and easily satisfy). I think that a better gift for a 6'7" man who could not possibly make a more needy look than a lab is to teach him to knit so he can do all the stockinette and you just get stuck with some ribbing, shaping, and a whole lot of seaming. That's a good trade in my book.
Ruth, Cast on for the sweater so you can pull out the project a few times where he can see you and it, then go to TJ Maxx and buy him one, cut the label out and present him with the finished object. I won't tell, he'll be happy, and you can then knit what you want! Either that or a knitting machine for the BORING parts.
OMG, I am laughing so hard! Only because my ginormous man doesn't wear sweaters. (He seems resigned to my joining you tomorrow btw.)
Not even a manly moss stitch? C'mon now.
My heart goes out to you...that's an awful lot of stockinette. Perhpas you can negotiate by showing him evocative swatches of things that are not stockinette? I agree with Lucia, even moss stitch would be an improvement. 
Or maybe a purled diamond pattern...
You could fob him off with socks and scarves at first and work on the sweater for the eternity it will take you. Hey! Perfect 50th anniversary gift.
Oh, is that the look he gave you? How could you resist? It's not like he's 6'7" of sweater.
Awwww. Such a sad dawggy!
Hee hee! Puppy dog eyes hummm... give him a choice of multi color or patterened uni color. Or better yet no choice just make him one then you can get all offended if he doesn't like it after all that work and guilt him into wearing it.
Kathy
I am afraid. Because if it happened to you, it could happent to me. What is this world coming to?
Good luck with the love/guilt knitting.
haha
I agree- knitting machine. Funny- I vowed I would never date a guy shorter than me (I am 5'11" ish). Broke my rule and married him- Hubbalicious is 5'7". Knitting him sweaters is a snap, except that he doesn't LIKE to wear sweaters. sigh.
Hey, maybe if you tell him how much you need to spend on yarn to make that huge of a sweater, he'd take it back. On second thought, then he might wise up to how much you need to spend on all the other projects... Hm...
Well, my heart goes out to you, but if you happen to meet any other 6'7" guys who are single, let me know; this 6' gal finds tall guys hard to come by.
Well, here's my suggestion: bring the sweater to knitting and we'll all take turns knitting some of it.
(says me, who still hasn't finished the Dale for dh that I started *last October*, which he is now sadly wondering about...)
Hmmmm, my dear husband feels the same way yours does, lots of complaining that I never "really" make anything for him. Give me a break . . . just doing socks requires a huge effort as it is like knitting for big foot.
Good luck with that sweater, I started one last year for my DH but it is in the UFO pile.
Lynda
Not even a little false cable thing instead of stockinette?
If you don't already have a netflix subscription, perhaps now is the time to watch all of those shows/movies you've been meaning to see. At least that way you'll be entertained.
I've never offered to knit my husband something but I have seen some looks. So one day I held up my Trekking socks - the third pair I had ever made and way too large on me. Will these fit you? Are they wool, you know I don't like wool. Yeah, I'm just asking if they fit, not if you'll wear them every day. Yes, they fit. Hey, these aren't scratchy. And they're warm. Can I keep them?
So my husband has his first pair of wool socks in his life. And he wears them all time. But a sweater....oh no. Big items are for me. And me alone.
Don't you hate when they know what they want???!!!
OMG, not NAVY blue ... even the grey, a heather grey would be better. Good Lord, he's 6'7" too? Bless your heart ... no wonder you haven't knit him much. Go for a hat (with the sweater "on-the-needles"), then fingerless gloves, then a softer scarf. Go ahead & please him with the little things for awhile. He might forget about the sweater. Well maybe.
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