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using up yarn: knitting[fail]
17 Mar 2009 02:41 pmEver since I stumbled on a link to this duster knitting pattern (a duster is a long cardigan sweater; the designer is calling it a "cardigan coat", but that sounds silly to me), Flicca, I've been coveting something like it. I have a lightweight cashmere-blend baby cabled cardigan with buttons in front, but it doesn't have the cosy, blanket-like heft for lounging that you can see this one does, and it's just thigh-length.
Now, although I've been crocheting up a storm all winter, I still can't remember how to knit. Or actually, that might come back to me, but I can't remember how to cast on. I'm pretty sure that Wax has shown me how to cast on and how to knit at least five times in the last five years, but every time I start to knit something for practice and quickly abandon it (I don't actually want another scarf! I have important things to crochet!), and then forget the lesson because I only was knitting for a few hours.
What Wax wears for loungewear is the first thing she ever knitted, a lumpy misshapen sweater monster that's big enough to fit three Waxs inside it even though I accidentally shrank it slightly in the wash (it got shorter, but not less wide) a coupla years ago.
The reason it's a misshapen sweater-monster is that it is the first thing she ever knitted, and of course she has never worn it out of the house, but it's still been a very useful garment. I mean, it's cosy and comfortable and has been loungewear for more than ten years. I've been thinking that I should just start knitting something and, after all, this proves that it can still be useful even if it turns out lumpy.
Of course I'll have to get her to show me how to cast on again first.
Now, although I've been crocheting up a storm all winter, I still can't remember how to knit. Or actually, that might come back to me, but I can't remember how to cast on. I'm pretty sure that Wax has shown me how to cast on and how to knit at least five times in the last five years, but every time I start to knit something for practice and quickly abandon it (I don't actually want another scarf! I have important things to crochet!), and then forget the lesson because I only was knitting for a few hours.
What Wax wears for loungewear is the first thing she ever knitted, a lumpy misshapen sweater monster that's big enough to fit three Waxs inside it even though I accidentally shrank it slightly in the wash (it got shorter, but not less wide) a coupla years ago.
The reason it's a misshapen sweater-monster is that it is the first thing she ever knitted, and of course she has never worn it out of the house, but it's still been a very useful garment. I mean, it's cosy and comfortable and has been loungewear for more than ten years. I've been thinking that I should just start knitting something and, after all, this proves that it can still be useful even if it turns out lumpy.
Of course I'll have to get her to show me how to cast on again first.
