Itty Bitty Knitty

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   8
   Jul
   

   My first color work project!

   So last night I was on Ravelry looking up patterns for a scarf. I wanted something new and slightly challenging to work on. Under all the patterns to knit a Doctor Who scarf I found a little gem. It was a pattern to knit a scarf that had stars on it. I was excited to start this project so I got right to it.

   It was challenging at first (like new patterns always are). I didn’t know how to cast on properly. I’d hold the two strands together and cast them on that way but it would become a problem when I went to knit the damn thing. I did this three or four times before considering another strategy: casting on the strands seperately. This worked well but by the time I finally figured it out it was around midnight and my knitting ended up shit because I was so tired so I put it off until the next morning. Here it is, next morning, and I’m doing great!  Granted I had to unravel and re-cast on about two or three times, but now I’m on a roll.

   The sad part? I’m still haven’t even got to knitting the stars yet… I hope that I can do it without having to unravel certain rows over and over again. It was so frustrating last night I almost gave up entirely but I really, really wanted something new to work on so I stuck with it, and I will continue to stick with it until I complete it!

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   • color work
4. 3
   Jul
   

   The Story of My Binding-off Dilema

   Three days ago my addiction to knitting was rediscovered when I cam across Etsy for the first time. I thought about how I had always wanted to sell the things I knit and that this might be my chance. All I had to do was complete my current project by binding off and I’d be all set (mind you, I can’t stand having more than one knitting project going at once). But there was only one problem… I had forgotten how to do it.

   I searched on Google and found directions on eHow but you know how it is sometimes. You can’t understand something that’s written so you need a visual. That’s when Youtube comes in handy. However, as much as that video helped, my impatience caused me to close out of the window and miss a crucial five seconds of the instruction. This, in turn, forced me to bind-off the same two stitches twenty or so times. I was hoping that if I continued to do it, the piece of shit would fix itself. Finally I accepted that I was only making it worse. I unraveled it and tried it again, only to fail once more. I eventually admitted defeat and re-visited the Youtube video (reluctantly, because the woman talked far too much in the beginning) and watched it all the way through. I realized my mistake, fixed it, and now I’m a knitting fool once again, binding-off almost as quickly as I case on and knit stitches.
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   Jul
   
   

   Keep calm and carry on cast on.
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   3
   Jul
   
   

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   Me and my best friend have had an inside joke running for about a year now regarding narwhals. Since this picture is of narwhals and knitting, I found it relevant to this blog.

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  bunny i made :)

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