This is what T says I do when I knit. I stitch, or drop a stitch rather, and then I bitch! The swear words come FLYING out as I figure out how to make things right again.
You see, I am a very novice knitter, I never really learned how, I just watched a friend do it and started doing it. Bored with the idea of a simple scarf I dove right into a baby hat project with tiny little needles and thing gauge yarn. It was kind of a nightmare to make but I thought the hat turned out really cute! I only had to stop into our local knitting store about 5 times for advice to get the hat finished!!
What I realized about knitting is that once I have spent $30 on some organic, free-range alpaca yarn :), an unqunatifiable amount on needles, markers, and stoppers, plus 60 precious hours of my time, this silly hat is worth like $500! Also there is a 100% chance that if I made the item for myself, I won't ever wear it.
So why knit???
I don't know if its the snowy weather, or the fact that my friends just had a baby or if I am simply channeling my 70 year old self, but these patterns have me itching to start stitching!
Hat for new baby N:
http://acechick.typepad.com/knitchicks_patterns/2006/01/strawberry_bean.html
http://www.p2designs.com/pdfs/ptn-froggyHat.pdf
http://www.spudandchloe.com/blog/2009/10/apple-hat-free-pattern/
Fingerless glove for me:
http://knitting.about.com/od/mittenpatterns/p/fingerless.htm
http://www.straw.com/cpy/patterns/mikado-gloves.html
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From an article B-unit shared with me (2008): Coldplay frontman Chris Martin has revealed the secret behind the success of his band getting behind their sewing machines for a good stitch and bitching. He has revealed that he and his bandmates do not believe in shelling out huge sums of money on designer threads.
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um, i keep thinking of this post as i knit, knit, knit away and realize how horrible i am at it. and don't care :) I started with a row of 20. then counted a few inches later and had 32. WHAT?! then dropped some (intentionally of course) and had 22. then back again to 30 something. i cannot, CANNOT knit correctly for the life of me, and i always sit there and think 'i wish chels was here, we could stich and bitch together. she would know what i mean by picking up and dropping all these dumb stiches'. so... i guess all of that to say, you've got a SNB partner here in denver! :) happy holidays, pretty woman!
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