So I knit weird stuff, like my 1/2 felted (read: half assed, pardon me) Cocktail Dress # 1, in which the title leads you to believe that someday there may be a Cocktail Dress # 2 and that's plain old assumption on your part. But I would really like to. Maybe I better just bite the bullet and fork up some $$$ to get someone to machine knit a bunch of wool yarn for me so I can make another weird thing.
I always say I can only knit rectangles and that's pretty accurate. Right now I'm doing a fairly straight and even rectangular scarf which is unlike me.
I had visitors. 2 friends came by to knit. They talked knitting lingo. Complicated knitting hings like casting on and knitting and purling and using circular needles. I caught some of it as I worked on my careful rows. I found myself yanking out a bunch of rows for the 2nd time, cuz the darn scarf was getting all crooked and fat. My grumbling caught some attention and I was told, "But we LIKE your funny knitting."
Man! I'm trying to be a real knitter here! And now you're telling me to ignore the lumpy mess that's unfolding right now, as I speak, right here in my hands and to just continue on with yet another wobbly, odd rectangular scarf?!
It's so sad. I actually had begun to believe that perhaps, with great concentration and much ripping out and reknitting that I possibly could knit neatly. And evenly. And straightly.
"Give it up", I think, "Straight and neat is not up your alley...your twisted and crooked alley!"
But hope springs eternal and I found a knitting pattern (or "patt-en" as they say in Rhode Island) for a multi-rectangular sweater. Hey, I can do rectangles!"
Oh dear, they have to be straight and even rectangles. And they require neat, careful stitches to be sewn together.
Nevermind!
1 comment:
wait, where's the cocktail dress itself? I wanna see a picture.
will cocktails be had? ; )
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