Showing posts with label frustration. Show all posts
Showing posts with label frustration. Show all posts

Thursday, December 13, 2007

jan's gloves

this is the first of my take on knitty's knucks for my friend jan from church. i have officially decided that i will only make fingerless gloves when coerced at gunpoint from here on out.  

seriously.  

my favorite thing about this project is the buttons i picked as an accent.

i don't even want to make the second one... 

the glove.  just hangin' out...


the 3x3 ribbed edge i decided on after
i almost went insane trying to do seed stitch for fifteen rows
 
bella's hand is a little small in these!

update:  12.19

the gloves are not done.  if you look really closely at the thumb on these photos, you can see that i totally messed up the gusset.  so i reknit glove one... only to find that when i tied off the bind off, i had bound off waaay too tightly.  that was when i sat for half an hour and cried.  my mom suggested loosening the cast off edge by undoing it and redoing it... thank god it worked.  so now, on to glove three, which is actually glove two, and hopefully glove the last.... 

ever.

knitty, this is one pattern i will not be using again!

Thursday, November 22, 2007

stitch.rip.stitch

today it seemed that i could stitch only about three rows, before i would realize i had made a monumental mistake, pass the knitting to my mom and say "help!"  she would inevitably find a stupid mistake (too many yarn overs seemed to be the order of the day) and i would rip it all back to a place where the knitting was clean.


the frustrating thing?  was i knitting some complicated cable pattern or fair isle?  no.  it was a straight forward dishcloth on number 7 needles.


in the end, after one more mistake on pattern repeat no. three, i ripped out the whole thing and plan to maybe start again tomorrow.  in my defence, it was noisy and busy in the living room with all the family around...the official score for the day?


knitting pattern: 3,000/this knitter: 0   

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11.27.07 update:  turns out all i needed was a little peace and quiet... the dishcloth is done and it is my hubby amante's new favorite!  yay for another finished project to add to the list!