I have spent WAY too many hours in the last couple of months re knitting things. Like, hours and hours and hours. For garments, I usually swatch, but even when I do sometimes things don't fit.
And even if something doesn't need a swatch I decide, despite 50 hours more or less of work on it, that it's the wrong size, or I'm doing the wrong item (scarf vs. wider dresser scarf...), I frog and reknit.
For example: I have some handspun which I did several years ago. Early handspun effort. I loved the colors by Gale in the initial roving, but once spun up the lavender tones were...well.. a little too dim and undecisive for me. (A nice way of saying that pale pinky lavender makes me nauseous, even when offset by yellow...). In an effort to destash, I pulled it out, decided that the yarn would look great in the Morning Surf scarf pattern. I had seen it in a 2008 issue of SpinOff and apparently it's now available for FREE! In the initial spinning I added some beads. It looked like dresser scarf project when I started the clever pattern, then realized that the beads at one end destined it to be a neck scarf. I've started this FOUR countem FOUR times in different widths. Hopefully now I've got it right.
The pattern does REALLY WELL at bringing one's eye to the unplanned color variations. Despite the fact that this is an early spinning effort, I will give this away.
SO with all the reknitting this summer and early autumn, it was with EXTREME PLEASURE that I FINISHED something. Son B requested a chullo in Clemson colors. Yes, Virginia, there IS a Clemson group on Ravelry!!
B has a large head, relatively speaking. (I also had to start this project several times but as it's bulky weight, it finished quick once I figured it out...). I found, thanks to Bernat, a top down chullo pattern. (All of the prior chullos in my life were bottom up...). The pattern is in this free ebook. Oh, thank you Bernat. Thus, I could knit until the crown fit B's head. He loves the photos I've sent...I'd better get it to him before football season's over!!
And even if something doesn't need a swatch I decide, despite 50 hours more or less of work on it, that it's the wrong size, or I'm doing the wrong item (scarf vs. wider dresser scarf...), I frog and reknit.
For example: I have some handspun which I did several years ago. Early handspun effort. I loved the colors by Gale in the initial roving, but once spun up the lavender tones were...well.. a little too dim and undecisive for me. (A nice way of saying that pale pinky lavender makes me nauseous, even when offset by yellow...). In an effort to destash, I pulled it out, decided that the yarn would look great in the Morning Surf scarf pattern. I had seen it in a 2008 issue of SpinOff and apparently it's now available for FREE! In the initial spinning I added some beads. It looked like dresser scarf project when I started the clever pattern, then realized that the beads at one end destined it to be a neck scarf. I've started this FOUR countem FOUR times in different widths. Hopefully now I've got it right.
The pattern does REALLY WELL at bringing one's eye to the unplanned color variations. Despite the fact that this is an early spinning effort, I will give this away.
SO with all the reknitting this summer and early autumn, it was with EXTREME PLEASURE that I FINISHED something. Son B requested a chullo in Clemson colors. Yes, Virginia, there IS a Clemson group on Ravelry!!
B has a large head, relatively speaking. (I also had to start this project several times but as it's bulky weight, it finished quick once I figured it out...). I found, thanks to Bernat, a top down chullo pattern. (All of the prior chullos in my life were bottom up...). The pattern is in this free ebook. Oh, thank you Bernat. Thus, I could knit until the crown fit B's head. He loves the photos I've sent...I'd better get it to him before football season's over!!
Hi Wendy...I have moments where no matter how many times I begin knitting something it jut never works out. I just say I've lost my knitting mojo and focus on my spinning until it goes away LOL :-)
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