Neglecting My Kids

Wednesday, July 30, 2014

I Obviously Need More Sleep

Don't you hate when its ten o'clock at night, and you can't sleep because your brain is full, and you can't knit on your red sweater because you're still debating its fate, and you don't want to knit your second sock because you have second sock syndrome so you reach into your stash and pull out the loveliest deep grey yarn to cast on for a new shawl (no specialized sizing required)

And then you get up the next morning and discover that your lovely deep grey shawl is in fact

Olive Green.

Yeah.

I was tired last night.

And it was dark.

But my new olive green shawl is going to be love-er-ly.

In other new, the world's cutest baby is still insanely cute.

Monday, July 28, 2014

A Crisis of Confidence

There comes a point in every knitting project where I'm just not sure I've made the right choices. Is it a bad pattern/yarn match. Is this a bad color? Am I making the wrong size? Sometimes I push through the fear and I end up with a perfect finished knit. But more often than not I am overcome with indecision and the offending object is banished to The Abyss to be frogged at a later date.

I have reached such a crisis point with my latest knit.

Am I knitting the right size? This sweater is supposed to have negative ease, but is this too much negative ease to actually wear.

This is a shorter sweater. Maybe I shouldn't be putting cropped silhouettes on my body. Should I have modified the sweater to add a bit of length...and ease...

This yarn is super super soft, so I don't understand why the sweater is a touch itchy. Will I wear a sweater that is a touch itchy? Should I try this in a different yarn? With a different size? With modifications for a different length? Should I give up and knit a completely different project?

I'm going to go play with the baby while the project takes a time out. Maybe I will knit sleeves and block this sweater. Or maybe I will turn it back into yarn. I should probably cast on something new to keep my company while I'm waiting to make a decision. Perhaps a nice scarf or hat. Something that doesn't require a size.