…how you can start a project with one yarn, and it will take FOREVER to make any progress and the whole thing just seems to be utter hateful torture, but then you put it away for a while and start it again later with a different yarn and OMFG! The progress! Holy crap! Puppies and rainbows and unicorns!
That, my friends? Has been my exact experience with the Leaf Lace Shawl. First started in… dunno, some nice, soft, grey/green merino. Every. Stitch. Was. Torture. Every one. I couldn’t memorize the pattern to save my life (and if you’ve knit this shawl, you know there’s no excuse for that one), I couldn’t seem to make progress, I just couldn’t make it work. Period. I restarted it Sunday night in some yummy, yummy, omgcan’tgetenoughofit Fleece Artist 2/6 merino, and whoosh! I’m almost at the half way point, and I really haven’t had all that much time to knit this week.
Hated it passionately the first time around, loving it intensely this time around. Go figure.
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you are just bent sis… of course I mean that in a good way :)
I don’t have that much experience with fibery projects, but with all the other stuff I’ve done, I’ve found that some things just need to incubate in the old knoggin for a while before they jell
April 7th, 2006
Yeah, so, where’s the photo of this yummy Fleece Artist?
April 7th, 2006
I also want to mention that I saw some of your spinning at the trunk show at Village and - WOW - gorgeous stuff!
April 7th, 2006