It’s that time of year again, when I find myself wanting an endless supply of scarves. Fall. The chill in the air must be combatted with a unique scarf… for each outfit. Haha. I usually head to the mall, determined to pay whatever is listed for a scarf I want, only to be reminded that the cheap ones I don’t really like are $30 and the ones I really like are $80. I just can’t do it!
And with that, my mind tells me that I need to make some. It can’t be that hard. God knows I love projects and have a hard time sitting still. Knitting is perfect! Or so I think.
I came close to figuring it out once. A friend gave me some needles and yarn and sat with me as I fumbled my way through a few stitches. I ripped them all out, tried again, ripped them out and tried again for quite some time. I finally got the hang of it and proceded to knit myself a three inch scarf. It’s very dainty. And cute. Hehe.
My friends bought me Stitch ‘n Bitch Nation a few years ago and I got Stitch ‘n Bitch shortly after that. I’ve studied them and want to make several things in them. Oh man. So much pressure!
My game plan for this year is to buy some larger needles, maybe bamboo??, and different yarn. The needles I have are slippery and small, which frustrates me in no time. I’m a fairly patient person but I’m also a perfectionist and I don’t deal well with my stitches sliding all over the place.
So… new needles, new yarn. Surely they will inspire me to attain my knitting dreams!
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Knitting, I actually used to be able to do that. One of these days perhaps I can start again. Sounds like I should start on scarves. I’ll keep that in mind. Or crocheting–perhaps I can do that again too–you can make scarves doing that. Chuckes–we’ll see.
Yes… bigger bamboo needles, and some really nice fat yarn- you will be able to knit up a scarf really quickly that way!
Yep. This confirms it. We were separated at birth.
Well, I don’t knit, but I crochet. Close enough, right? And we both love soap. And throwing flaming bags o’ poo at our friends. There…nuff said. We must be sisters…or distant cousins. Ha!
P.S. I am so down the scarves thing. One year for Christmas, EVERYONE got a scarf from me. I think I made like 15-20 scarves that year. I am currently working on one for Mia that is pink and white striped. I’ve never done stripes before, so we’ll see how it turns out.