the giant knitting obsession
Once upon a time I was knitting a sweater, and then I had a disappointment, and finally I came to realize that this whole knitting in two colors in the round from the top was completely insane and probably impossible and I should stop. Just walk away from the pointy sticks. No more knitting stupid impossible sweaters.
But then during the plague I couldn’t help myself; a washcloth was not enough, I needed a KNITTING PROJECT. So I frogged the aborted sweater and started over.
This time it’s in manageable pieces, and I have a pattern to follow (Debbie Bliss’s fair isle cardigan in Vogue Knitting Holiday 2007). I am knitting in a different gauge but despite the reawakened frenzy I tried really hard not to just start. I did some calculations and it seems like the stitch count for the small size will turn out my size if knit at this gauge. (Please don’t quote me if I come back in tears.) Of course I’m still insisting on using the flower pattern instead of what the the designer suggested. I cannot follow a pattern to the letter. It’s a disease.
By the time I was well I had knit the right front, and I’m almost done with the back now.
The monster knitting obsession is back.
March 17th, 2008 at 5:05 pm
…and it’s so pretty!!
March 18th, 2008 at 9:04 am
If you need to feed a knitting obsession, I can’t hardly think of a pretty project. Those flowers are stunning. I look forward to seeing the finished project!
March 18th, 2008 at 12:21 pm
lovely, lovely, lovely.
March 18th, 2008 at 9:33 pm
That looks so nice! I have recently (since the weekend) been knitting a leg (you might not want to know this, but I think it is the first part of a full size body). No flowers, though.
March 19th, 2008 at 11:27 am
I am not a knitter. I might be a wannabe knitter. yet, this project is so daunting that I am sending any fleeting knitting thoughts to the deepest part of my subconscious to stay there and be quiet a while longer…
March 21st, 2008 at 12:22 am
Come out, come out little fledgling Ellen knitter!
January 6th, 2009 at 7:44 am
That’s really beautiful—those flowers are so pretty and I love the colors. And I’m like you—I can’t follow a pattern to the letter. I just do “my own thing”. Sometimes that works for me but sometimes I have gigantic disasters, heh.