My sweater is currently in time-out. We had a bad mishap on Sunday night. I don't think it's ruined, but I'm still really upset. It's my own fault. I couldn't even bring myself to look at it last night.
This week is not starting out well at all. Yesterday was a lousy day at work, and this morning I woke up to find ants in the living room and the kitchen. I'm dreading what I will find when I get home from work today.
In hopes of making myself feel better and give myself something look forward to, I sent an email to Purlescence Yarns to check on the new Cascade Heritage Prints sock yarn that should be arriving soon. I made a list of the colorways I must have:
08 Cotton Candy
12 Spring Bouquet
05 Frosty Morn
13 Nightfall
04 Iris
02 Pop
01 Hawks
16 Summertime
Karen's Sweater Rules:
ReplyDelete1. No one else is going to know what it's "supposed to" look like. Even if it's a popular pattern and you're showing it to other knitters, you can claim deviations from the pattern are "customizations."
2. There are two kinds of knitting mistakes: those you can ignore (or, possibly, hide) and those that will affect the fit and wear of the object. Don't worry about the former as much as the latter.
3. It's no fun to realize you've spent hours and hours on pattern and made a mistake long ago that can't be fixed without ripping way back or starting over. Sometimes you have to put the project aside for awhile, but try to remember it's just yarn and there's no permanent damage done. Time "wasted" doing something you enjoy (even if it has to be undone) isn't wasted time.
Unfortunately, I snagged just 1 ply of the yarn on my hair clip when I tried it on. I did my best to pull out the rest of the plys and somewhat get them to re-twist, but it's far from perfect.
ReplyDeleteI finished it tonight, though :) Working on that post at the moment.