Archive for July, 2009

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Swatch

July 31st, 2009

Since before my little girl was born I’ve been trying really hard to start a new pair of socks. The part that has been causing me so much difficulty is exactly what to knit. I didn’t want to do simple socks, and I didn’t want to follow a pattern and try to match the yarn reqs. to what I have (buying yarn is out for quite some time). I don’t know what it is, but I had the hardest time forcing myself to think of an idea.
Finally I just broke down and started swatching. I think that’s one of my problems. I often want to get started without having to take the time to plan. Sometimes that works. Actually, a lot of the time that works because I usually get the idea before deciding to make something. This time it just would not work.
The swatch…
sockswatch

It looks kind of messy, and it’s not the yarn I will be using for the socks. However, it’s got the seed of an idea I’ve been working on, and I’m a bit excited to get started. I’m not too happy with the leaf stems and how open the stitches look, but a good ole twisted stitch should fix that right up.

There’s one little snag, and that’s the flower I’m trying to put on the end. You can probably see the mess at the top where I attempted to convert a stitch pattern to my purposes. I probably don’t need to tell you: it didn’t work.

I need some kind of flower…

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