I really enjoy knitting. I like small projects. There’s nothing wrong with this. I have two sweaters that I started and intend to see to the finish simply because I’ve completed so much of them that it would be stupid to not finish them at this point. One of them is for me. One of them is for a friend. My goal is to finish them this by the end of fall. I think this is not an unreasonable goal. It will be a long time before I knit another sweater….IF I ever knit another sweater.
I am a S-L-O-W knitter.
I like making hats.
I like making scarves.
I like making socks.
I don’t like following other people’s patterns. If I use a pattern, I tend to alter them until I get what I want. I guess you could say I use patterns as "guidelines."
I want to design my own knitting. If I’m going to alter or change other people’s knitting patterns as much as I do, I need to quit being lazy, do THE MATH and make my own patterns. Oh, but THE MATH.
I started the I Do Shrug and know that I’m never going to finish it. I’ve completely lost interest. Partly because I don’t really like the yarn I’m using and partly because it is a shrug.
I want to do lace, but it’ll have to be something I WANT to do. The I Do Shrug is not it.
I want to try fair isle and do more intarsia, but with things I like. I like geometric patterns and celtic knots and things like that.
I am horrible at knit-a-longs. I join them and then promptly avoid the project like the plague. I should stop joining them.
The sock now looks like this:
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