Wednesday, May 11, 2011

Bad blogger


Bad blogger. I'm a bit flighty - I pick things up and then leave them. I'll blog for two weeks, then ignore it. That's probably why my readership keeps slipping, that or I'm boring.

I've started a new knitting project, a simple shawl. I have "mastered" the knit stitch, the purl stitch, casting on, making scarves and hats and needed a new beginner-ish project to try. My local yarn store suggest a shawl. Frankly, the pattern is a little too easy - knit every row, front and back, increase by one stitch every other row. At the store I picked out two different yarns that I adored and the sales lady told me that they would be difficult to use at my knitting level and strongly encouraged me to get something else. I picked the sea foam yarn in the background even though I wasn't thrilled about it.

Once I started the project I quickly realized how boring both the yarn and the pattern were. So yesterday I went back to the yarn store and picked out one of the yarns I originally wanted - the dusty pink, silver, plum color change yarn in the foreground. I came home sat on the front porch in the sun and started the project over and what do you know it's so much more interesting now.

3 comments:

  1. I can't believe she talked you into yarn you didn't like. Goo for you for going back, I think the best way to learn is to pick a pattern that is just above your skill level and figure it out!

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  2. It's amazing how something as simple as changing the look of the yarn can make a project interesting!

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  3. Folks in the knitting world are questioning the conventional wisdom of using cheap, crappy yarn with crappy needles and boring projects. There are yarns you want to avoid - stuff that splits easily, doesn't pull out easily, etc., but that yarn doesn't look like much of a challenge. It does look gorgeous, however.

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