Sweater Woe’s

Sweater woe’s…we all have them…some of us are just lucky and get to experience that character building phenomena more than others. *turns head to the heavens nodding* Thank you great sweater gods!

I decided to buckle down and knit. I was going to get at least the front portion of the Garn Studio sweater off of my needles if it killed me. It had turned up significantly warmer down here so I had the intentions of finishing this part up, put it in a plastic bag, and setting it aside for a day when there was a crispness to the air again (go figure that’s today, but who’s counting?). My skein was in my knitting bag as I sat cross-legged on the couch knitting away while watching one of those corny Family Channel movies that are slightly reminiscent of Lifetime movies, only minus the crazy man trying to kill you. You may have seen the one with the chubby girl from Hairspray and Fran Drecher, I think it’s called Beautiful, or something cliche like that. Anyway, I’m sitting there all engulfed in the movie knowing that no matter what the girl is going to be true to herself, wear something heinous, and still place in the beauty contest (thank you family channel for warping reality, you are now responsible for some teenage chubster getting her heart broken in a beauty contest)…Anyway, I was knitting…I notice as I’m excitedly coming to a bindoff point (and the movie’s climax) that something feels very light from inside my bag, I look down and my ball is nearly gone. Oh dear. I have one skein left…183 yards to do two 3/4 sleeves and finish up the collar…not going to happen. Now I’m a faith knitter, you all know that…but really? So…I have to call the yarn shop…Oh…I’ll do that right now…I’m on hold…Yarnergency…AND THERE IS NONE LEFT!!!! It’s ok…I’ll make this work.

Anyway…my other exciting disaster is the accidental giant yamaka that I knitted. My friend and I have not been referring to this blunder in quite so politically correct terms, and I took a photo but it’s so sad that I’m ashamed to show it. I did the Koolhaus again, this time for me, in this beautiful Sapphire and Red kettle dyed. Apparently I got a little excited and forgot the last repeat. When I got done and attempted to plop it on my head it popped right off…that’s saying something…I have a small head. So…if you happen to know a largish man with the need for a cold weather yamaka, I have a rather lovely one for him. Several tears have been shed over it…I loved that yarn…

So…my new project is the Juliet. We’ll see how that goes. I’m using Colinette Prism so it’ll be interesting. Perhaps you’ll get some pictures once there’s more than an inch done and no disasters to speak of. So far so good.