Ufos are real
I kid you not :)
While browsing ravelry.com, I found out that there is a difference between a wip (work in progress) and a ufo (unfinished object)
A wip is a piece you will come back to once in a while - I currently have just one, a lacy scarf with a tricky pattern. The pattern is beautiful but I hate it so much, because you have to concentrate and count stitches and you can't even cheat when you miss a stitch, it will show.
Nothing you can do while lounging on the sofa and watching tv. Once in a while, when I feel like crocheting something difficult, I go back to that scarf and crochet another 2 centimeters.
I've had a couple of ufos, though. The most memorable (and most expensive) one was a cardigan I wanted to crochet for myself, actually it was the very first piece of clothing I tried. I picked this pattern here . I had absolutely no experience whatsoever, I've only made granny squares before I tried this ambitious pattern. I bought 20 balls of yarn, the wrong one, as it turned out. I picked a bulky one - mistake number one. I didn't measure myself and just started a size I thought could fit me. I didn't consider that a bulky yarn automatically increases the size of the finished piece. The result was a hybrid between a potato-sack and a tent. I was devastated *lol* In the end I frogged the whole thing and started smaller, literally - with children's clothes ;)
Right now, I have one ufo - and that's because I don't know what to do with the yarn. It's handdyed, different shades of dusky pink, but the texture of the thread is so odd. Thin in some places, bulky in other, and there are fluffy strands inbetween. The colour itself would be perfect for a little girl's (or boy's) cardigan or sweater, but I just don't like the way it looks when crocheted.
While browsing ravelry.com, I found out that there is a difference between a wip (work in progress) and a ufo (unfinished object)
A wip is a piece you will come back to once in a while - I currently have just one, a lacy scarf with a tricky pattern. The pattern is beautiful but I hate it so much, because you have to concentrate and count stitches and you can't even cheat when you miss a stitch, it will show.
Nothing you can do while lounging on the sofa and watching tv. Once in a while, when I feel like crocheting something difficult, I go back to that scarf and crochet another 2 centimeters.
I've had a couple of ufos, though. The most memorable (and most expensive) one was a cardigan I wanted to crochet for myself, actually it was the very first piece of clothing I tried. I picked this pattern here . I had absolutely no experience whatsoever, I've only made granny squares before I tried this ambitious pattern. I bought 20 balls of yarn, the wrong one, as it turned out. I picked a bulky one - mistake number one. I didn't measure myself and just started a size I thought could fit me. I didn't consider that a bulky yarn automatically increases the size of the finished piece. The result was a hybrid between a potato-sack and a tent. I was devastated *lol* In the end I frogged the whole thing and started smaller, literally - with children's clothes ;)
Right now, I have one ufo - and that's because I don't know what to do with the yarn. It's handdyed, different shades of dusky pink, but the texture of the thread is so odd. Thin in some places, bulky in other, and there are fluffy strands inbetween. The colour itself would be perfect for a little girl's (or boy's) cardigan or sweater, but I just don't like the way it looks when crocheted.