Serendipity

September 26th, 2006

I started a new project recently, after seeing a co-worker wear a pink head scarf on her head. Forget the pink; it was the scarf that I really liked. I decided that I was going to knit my own in a wonderful green. I’ll make this part of the story short: I knit and ripped this thing out about ten times, only to rip it out one last time. I wanted something lacy, and wasn’t getting it.

Deciding to be patient I waited until I went home to check out the summer 2006 issue of Interweave Knits that I have. I remembered there being something about lace in there. Looking through the magazine reminded me of the staff project of a headband that I really liked. I went to Interweave Knits subscriber section, downloaded the bit about the staff projects, and printed it. I planned to do something similar, but looking more like a headband than a scarf.

I already bought some yarn for this project, so I needed to make sure that what I had would suit this pattern. I look down where it says “Yarn:” and immediately after that colon was the exact brand and type of yarn that I had bought for this project already. What made it even cooler? I had been using the exact needles the pattern called for in the pieces I’d already ripped out a million times: size 6 DPNs.

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