Fridays are for Ripping.

Last Friday the socks were the victims.

Circle socks were the first to go. I should have knit them on 2.5 mm needles and rather than continue on and give them to someone with smaller feet, I ripped.

About the same time I realized that I wasn't enjoying knitting Dreaming socks out of a brown yarn. This was the second attempt at finding the perfect yarn for what is a really nice yarn. I was just not feeling the love for it . I am now looking for a new sock pattern.

Today was finally the day to say goodbye to Norwegian woods. I have been fighting with this shawl since the day I started it. I didn't have enough yarn in the first color that I started with.

Then I misread the pattern and it was too small. I thought everything was perfect on the third start until I realized that while I had enough yarn, I also had two very different shades of the same color. They were the same dye lot, but different colors.



It has been taunting me for too long. I could hear it calling me every time I walked into the sewing room. It was time to silence it. .

Frost flowers is another project that I have spent far too much time on.

I started this one back in 2005 as part of a Yahoo group KAL. When I started, I did not realize how big this shawl actually was. After I started, I found a picture in which it was used as a canopy for a wedding.
I had completed only four of the seven repeats and there was an edging to knit after that. I had already knit 98.7 gms of yarn into a shawl that I don't particularilly like. As I was ripping, I did momentarilly stop and think about finishing the repeat that I was on and just casting off the edge. It would have been big enough.

Nope, I was done with it. It's gone.

Come back next week to see what's next to hit the floor.

Festivus for the rest of us

This is the Festivus stole. It started out as an interesting project to knit. It was a good project to take on the airplane. The chart was large and easy to follow.

Perhaps too easy. By the time I was a quarter of the way through, I was no longer thrilled with it. At the half way point, I was annoyed because the color in the second ball of yarn did not start out in a controlled way. I pulled out part of the ball and knit on....reluctantly.

The knot that i ran into annoyed me more. Again I pulled out part of the ball of yarn and tried to match stripes so I could have identical stripes. By this time, I was really not enjoying the knitting and had started calling it Crapicus. I wanted it to be finished.

But it wasn't long enough. I thought about making a short stole but I knew I wouldn't be happy with it and I would have yarn left over. I kept knitting.


I finished it. I really didn't take me that long to knit it but it did make me think about the kind of knitter that I am.

I love starting new projects. I love finishing projects. I get bogged down in the middle.

Long, repetitive patterns like this stole are not the kind of projects that I should start. Lace projects that continually change are better than stocking stitch patterns.



Hurani was as close to being a perfect pattern. I finished it in less than a week so it didn't hang around taunting me for a long time. Long before I got bored with the repetitive easy first chart, the pattern switched and I was into the edging. The second chart was finished in a flash and I was on to the crocheted cast off.

It's a great little shawlette to wear, I love the color and the only thing that would make it better would be some beads.

I have started another pair of socks. I'm not loving them. It's the third time I've knit the Eleanor socks and while I like the pattern, there are very few patterns that should be knit more than once or twice. You may hear me call them the Crapinor socks before I'm done.