Rip it Out, Try Again

May 28th, 2006

I don’t know what it is, but for some reason every time I start a new project I have knit and ripped out the piece at least several times before it’s finished. By new I mean something that has a lot of new skills to learn. I haven’t been knitting for very long, so it seems like every other project I start has some new stitch or technique. I love it, but I’m doing so much repeating.

I must be a knitting perfectionist or something.

When I started the Branching Out pattern from Knitty, I ended up knitting and ripping out the scarf 6 times before I finally reached row 9. I eventually gave up on that project and made the yarn into something else, but anyways…

I’m working on another project right now that I’ve probably cast-on for about four times. The second time was after getting to row 8!! The worst part about re-doing that project from the beginning again was that there were 136 cast-on stitches. Yeesh!

This may seem a silly thing to surprise me, but I’m normally a lazy sort of person. I don’t bother to read the directions when I get a new appliance or piece of furniture (or at least, I wish I could avoid it but the husband makes me). I do it the quick way if I think I can manage on my own, and I’m a bit of a hasty crafter – especially when sewing. Who’d have thought?

Perhaps that’s what has drawn me to knitting so much. I tend to lose focus – to some extent – on the end result, and end up enjoying the process as I go along.

Honestly, I really did enjoy having to cast-on 136 stitches four times. Four was the number of the hour, what with the four-letter-word vocabulary I had.

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