How The Creativity Monster Ate My Brain, or How To Finish a Pair of Slippers
1. Start and finish one half of a pair of adorable slippers.
2. Begin the second half.
3. Have daydreams about a "simple" brioche stitch scarf.
4. Sit down to knit slipper
5. Knit two stitches
6. Get up to look for yarn for the scarf instead.
5. Decide it might be a good idea to learn how to knit brioche stitch
7. Try it in two colours while we're at it!
8. Spend 3 days fiddling around with size, colour, gauge, the actual stitch itself, and realise that brioche stitch is not dense enough for what you want.
9. Spend another day looking for an alternative stitch, mistake rib? regular rib?
10. Try your hand at fisherman's rib, which is almost exactly like brioche stitch, but EASIER!
11. Stay up until 2 am trying to figure out how to do fisherman's rib in two colours
12. Unvent double knitting in the process... become impressed and annoyed all at the same time
13. When you finally get it, decide fisherman's rib is still lacks the density required for the scarf you're thinking of.
14. OK, OK, FINE, do a simple rib... but do it in alternating rows with a varigated yarn. That should be fun!
15. Sit down to knit the scarf.
16. Realise figuring out the increases and eventual mitred corners are not going to be as easy as pie.
17. Spend a day and a half writing and re-writing a pattern onbills little bits of paper scattered all around your house.
18. Begin scarf, get half way up the front and come to the assertion that although stash busting is a virtue, making a toddler wear an acrylic scarf all winter is not a virtuous thing to do.
19. Take said toddler to the yarn store.
20. Try to distract him with a ball winder that you stole out of a box as he throws every single skein in the store viciously to the floor, shouting "bounce!" so no one will see the mess he's making.
21. Pay for the yarn, and decide on the way home that a stripe pattern based on the Fibonacci Sequence would be cool and easy
22. Remember nothing comes easy, spend another day figuring out when the stripes are going in and how that relates to the increases and try to decide if each numeral should be represented by one row or a set of rows.
23. Sit down to knit the scarf, realise the previous decision about numerals and rows was a mistake and begin writing the pattern all over again.
24. Mutter to yourself, "I hate this and I hate everything about this."
25. Finish the slippers in two hours.
2. Begin the second half.
3. Have daydreams about a "simple" brioche stitch scarf.
4. Sit down to knit slipper
5. Knit two stitches
6. Get up to look for yarn for the scarf instead.
5. Decide it might be a good idea to learn how to knit brioche stitch
7. Try it in two colours while we're at it!
8. Spend 3 days fiddling around with size, colour, gauge, the actual stitch itself, and realise that brioche stitch is not dense enough for what you want.
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| This is the (third) brioche test, I was also trying to learn increases at the same time |
10. Try your hand at fisherman's rib, which is almost exactly like brioche stitch, but EASIER!
11. Stay up until 2 am trying to figure out how to do fisherman's rib in two colours
12. Unvent double knitting in the process... become impressed and annoyed all at the same time
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| Side two. ...and a blue chunk on the other side |
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| Side one of the fisherman's rib test. The double knitting is where there is an orange chunk on one side... |
13. When you finally get it, decide fisherman's rib is still lacks the density required for the scarf you're thinking of.
14. OK, OK, FINE, do a simple rib... but do it in alternating rows with a varigated yarn. That should be fun!
15. Sit down to knit the scarf.
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| Monkey wearing his awesomely orange and hideously acrylic scarf beard |
17. Spend a day and a half writing and re-writing a pattern on
18. Begin scarf, get half way up the front and come to the assertion that although stash busting is a virtue, making a toddler wear an acrylic scarf all winter is not a virtuous thing to do.
19. Take said toddler to the yarn store.
20. Try to distract him with a ball winder that you stole out of a box as he throws every single skein in the store viciously to the floor, shouting "bounce!" so no one will see the mess he's making.
21. Pay for the yarn, and decide on the way home that a stripe pattern based on the Fibonacci Sequence would be cool and easy
22. Remember nothing comes easy, spend another day figuring out when the stripes are going in and how that relates to the increases and try to decide if each numeral should be represented by one row or a set of rows.
23. Sit down to knit the scarf, realise the previous decision about numerals and rows was a mistake and begin writing the pattern all over again.
24. Mutter to yourself, "I hate this and I hate everything about this."
25. Finish the slippers in two hours.
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| If you can't see it, there's a cat on the leg of the slipper. I had a feeling it would blend in after felting, but the Monkey loves orange, so I did it anyway. |
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