In an exercise, the following sentence came out:

(complete the sentence with the propositions in the right order, and say which
proposition matches the star)

> 母の誕生日に_____ _____ ***** _____贈った
>
> A. 編んで
>
> B. 心を
>
> C. セーターを
>
> D. 込めて

There's no real doubt about B and D, since 心を込める is a frozen expression. Also,
I'm pretty confident the meaning is "For my mother's birthday, I put my heart
into knitting a sweater for her". So my guess was C, and the sentence was:

> 母の誕生日に心を込めて **セーターを編んで** 贈った。

But it comes out that the expected answer was A. The only structure that makes
sense to me is:

> 母の誕生日に心を込めて **編んでセーターを** 贈った。

I'm not 100% confident about the source of this exercise, so is this really
the right answer?

What bugs me is the fact that the object セーター comes _after_ its verb 編む. Does
Japanese grammar actually allows that? If so, how frequent is it to say the
verb before the object?
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て-form object
Chaining verbs with ~て with an object