the leviathan on my couch

[frecklestars]

LJ Idol week 30 (2/6): leviathan

There's a leviathan in my living room.

No, I am not hosting a couch-surfing cross-country-traveling cowboy-hat-wearing backpacking-toting sea monster. I'm talking about my first knitting project. The Big One. My mom's now-belated Christmas present.

So I'm running about six months behind. My mother did get to open it on

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[minnesattva]

I knit my then-boyfriend a Doctor Who scarf (a particularly wide and long scarf in many different colored stripes) and even though it was quite a straightforward project for me it took months and I felt married to it by the end. I'd complained about it to all my friends so much; they all laughed when I finished it and gave it to him and immediately started saying I didn't know what to do with myself without it!

He loved it though, so the story has a happy ending.

[frecklestars]

Doctor Who scarves are the best! A friend of mine made one too, for hr husband I think. IIRC it ended up being close to eight feet long. I'm so glad you got to finish yours, and that it was well received. ;P

[jem0000000]

*hugs* Wow, what a project!

[notodette]

Hats off to the knitters! They know what true patience and skill is.

[frecklestars]

It's funny - I don't think of it as something that requires patience. Knitting is just happy busywork for my hands while I'm watching movies.

[whipchick]

Great analogy :) I have a third of an afghan in my basement...

[frecklestars]

Somewhere...an afghan lurks for whipchick to come back...in a tower...the afghan lets down yarn for potential suitors but none come....

Oh gods, I've been obsessing over fairytales lately. Sorry. :P

[whipchick]

I love it! Now I'm imagining the afghan softly twining half-knitted tendrils up the stairs...