Thoughts on knitting
One of my knitting friends has a wonderfully clear perspective on her knitting. If she doesn't like it, she'll pull it out and start over. A few months back, she spent a good two hours unravelling a sweater she had made - and worn - and has since reknit it into a cardigan. She explained that while she liked the style of the sweater, she didn't like the way the colors in the yarn had 'pooled' (when you used multi-colored yarn sometimes one particular color will accumulate row after row in the same place and the results aren't always great), and she knew it would annoy her enough to not wear the sweater at all. She loves the cardigan she knit and it will get a lot more wear, and all in all, it was a very logical, practical thing for her to do.
Of course, sometimes it is difficult to acknowledge the logical, practical things. You look at how much time and effort you put into the project. You try and convince yourself you can probably 'live with it'.
However, I have decided to take a page from Allison's book and pull out a good 8" of plain knitting in a cardigan I'm working on, because the textured band I did earlier on is nowhere near wide enough. It looked fine when the cardigan was only 5" long, but now, a dozen or so rows from completion, it just looks, well, silly. And although I can look at those hours and hours of stocking stitch and think 'what a waste', I also know that it will annoy me every single time I go to wear it and will probably make me NOT wear it, and what would be the good of that? So tonight, I'm going to go home and pull out all that hard work, and redo it.
This is why you should work on cardigans and sweaters in the summer...
Of course, sometimes it is difficult to acknowledge the logical, practical things. You look at how much time and effort you put into the project. You try and convince yourself you can probably 'live with it'.
However, I have decided to take a page from Allison's book and pull out a good 8" of plain knitting in a cardigan I'm working on, because the textured band I did earlier on is nowhere near wide enough. It looked fine when the cardigan was only 5" long, but now, a dozen or so rows from completion, it just looks, well, silly. And although I can look at those hours and hours of stocking stitch and think 'what a waste', I also know that it will annoy me every single time I go to wear it and will probably make me NOT wear it, and what would be the good of that? So tonight, I'm going to go home and pull out all that hard work, and redo it.
This is why you should work on cardigans and sweaters in the summer...