There’s not much to blog about this week. I’m not even sure what I’ve done this week. One thing I’ve been doing is going through my packed closet full of UFO’s, sorting, taking inventory, and choosing some projects that I think I can get done by the end of next month to put in the fair.
The first bag I took out was a knitted sweater for myself that I started at least 15 years ago!! I just keep hanging on to it thinking I’ll finish it one of these days. One thing about knitting sweaters, I usually finish them. I’ve probably made more sweaters than anything else in my life of crafting and needlework. For some reason, this one has had me baffled. The pattern wasn’t coming out the way that I thought it was supposed to, so I put it away. Once in a while when I go through my stash of UFO’s, I get it out again and look at it. I forget where I was in the pattern, and am too lazy or uncaring enough to figure it out, so back into the bag it goes. At one point, I decided to frog it and so I slid it off the needles, but I didn’t have the heart to unravel it. I was using five different skeins of yarn at the same time, and frankly, the thought of pulling all that work out made my arms go to jelly! (The front was about eight inches from being done!)
Well, I was determined that this was going to be the deciding moment — to frog or not to frog! I layed it all out on the table in front of me, used some patience, read the directions again, put it carefully back on the needles, and for some reason it looked to me like it was falling into place! I started knitting on it and I got the front done!!
I made one small, minute, tiny, very un-noticeable mistake that I didn’t discover until I was several rows away from it. The thought of ripping out all of those yarn sections for several rows made me start to hyperventilate! You can see it if you look close enough at it, but you’d almost have to know where it is. (I’m a perfectionist, anyway I used to be. The older I get, the less of a perfectionist I seem to be. Is it laziness? Or maybe I realize more and more that it really doesn’t matter that much! It’s just a material thing.) It bugs me a little, but I can learn to live with it!
Well, I got really excited about FINALLY finishing the front, so I started on the back. In the directions, the back is supposed to be made just like the front. There’s no way I’m putting this pattern on the back too. It would probably be another 15 years before I get it finished! So I’m making the back in a solid color. I have the back about half done now, and I’m determined to stay with it until I get it done! Besides, the worst is over now!)
About the only other thing I’ve done this week was make a pretty Halloween floral centerpiece out of one of the jars that I got varnished last week. What do you think?
Pretty cool, huh?
I’ve also knitted some more dishraggs. That’s all for this week, folks. Have a great week!
