We have to burn it
8 Nov 2024 09:10 pmBy "it" I of course mean the cursed purple yarn that I have just finished making into its fourth and final form.
My cursed sweater post from November 2022 covers all the mishaps in the first and second sweater incarnations of this yarn. After all of that, this second incarnation got frogged because the toggle closures, while cute, left it with gaps because the button bands weren't deep enough, and it got tight over the hips due to not enough increases but I didn't have enough yarn to redo it and add room there, plus I had already run out of pockets, plus I really WANTED it to have a hood.
The third incarnation was an attempt at a saddle-shoulder pullover and I just quit because I wasn't feeling it. I don't think it would have been a good color for the pattern I picked, anyway. About 10% of a sweater was sitting in a Ziploc bag since spring of 2023 along with all the remaining balls of it.
I weighed the remaining yarn to estimate the yardage and realized that there was no longer enough of it to make a sweater with sleeves, so I picked a sweater vest pattern I liked. It had bobbles and I was excited for the result.
Unfortunately I didn't notice until I had finished weaving in all the ends this evening that I forgot one entire horizontal repeat of the lace pattern on the back of the vest, making the back narrower than the front so that the sleeve holes pulled in awkwardly, like a racerback. The vest isn't too small, but it looks too stupid to wear. And since it's a horizontal repeat, I'd have to start over from scratch - there's no way to fix it.
I staggered into the livingroom with my discovery, dazed, to tell![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
waxjism.
"Well, now we have to burn it," she said. "It's definitely cursed."
"But curses aren't real," I said. "It can't actually be cursed! How does this keep happening?"
My sister summed it up, "On the one hand I don't believe in curses but on the other hand it's clearly cursed."
Wax admitted that curses are not real, but pointed out that the pattern is incontrovertible evidence. Even if the curse is actually a psychological effect on me, it's clearly not safe for me to try to knit anything else with it. "Get some different purple yarn to make the purple hoodie that you want," she said.
I ordered some yarn for a holiday sweater today and also some replacement fingering wool to finish a second Fair Isle vest after that, but I was so excited about knitting yesterday and the day before that I kept putting off ordering the yarn, so I don't have it yet. I have had vague thoughts of gathering up leftover scraps to make a stashbuster random-striped zigzag sweater (a vague Missoni copycat), but I'm not sure it would be safe to use the remainder of this cursed yarn in it, even though it's the right gauge.
We will not actually be burning it because wool has a natural resistance to burning. It would be difficult to to do. I suppose I'll actually put it in the trash (where it would be burned to produce electricity). Or maybe use it as a cat bed or something.
My cursed sweater post from November 2022 covers all the mishaps in the first and second sweater incarnations of this yarn. After all of that, this second incarnation got frogged because the toggle closures, while cute, left it with gaps because the button bands weren't deep enough, and it got tight over the hips due to not enough increases but I didn't have enough yarn to redo it and add room there, plus I had already run out of pockets, plus I really WANTED it to have a hood.
The third incarnation was an attempt at a saddle-shoulder pullover and I just quit because I wasn't feeling it. I don't think it would have been a good color for the pattern I picked, anyway. About 10% of a sweater was sitting in a Ziploc bag since spring of 2023 along with all the remaining balls of it.
I weighed the remaining yarn to estimate the yardage and realized that there was no longer enough of it to make a sweater with sleeves, so I picked a sweater vest pattern I liked. It had bobbles and I was excited for the result.
Unfortunately I didn't notice until I had finished weaving in all the ends this evening that I forgot one entire horizontal repeat of the lace pattern on the back of the vest, making the back narrower than the front so that the sleeve holes pulled in awkwardly, like a racerback. The vest isn't too small, but it looks too stupid to wear. And since it's a horizontal repeat, I'd have to start over from scratch - there's no way to fix it.
I staggered into the livingroom with my discovery, dazed, to tell
waxjism. "Well, now we have to burn it," she said. "It's definitely cursed."
"But curses aren't real," I said. "It can't actually be cursed! How does this keep happening?"
My sister summed it up, "On the one hand I don't believe in curses but on the other hand it's clearly cursed."
Wax admitted that curses are not real, but pointed out that the pattern is incontrovertible evidence. Even if the curse is actually a psychological effect on me, it's clearly not safe for me to try to knit anything else with it. "Get some different purple yarn to make the purple hoodie that you want," she said.
I ordered some yarn for a holiday sweater today and also some replacement fingering wool to finish a second Fair Isle vest after that, but I was so excited about knitting yesterday and the day before that I kept putting off ordering the yarn, so I don't have it yet. I have had vague thoughts of gathering up leftover scraps to make a stashbuster random-striped zigzag sweater (a vague Missoni copycat), but I'm not sure it would be safe to use the remainder of this cursed yarn in it, even though it's the right gauge.
We will not actually be burning it because wool has a natural resistance to burning. It would be difficult to to do. I suppose I'll actually put it in the trash (where it would be burned to produce electricity). Or maybe use it as a cat bed or something.
