My dexterous digits have been smitten with a knitting bug, and thereby hangs a tale - or two. I have discovered that badly written pattern instructions can cause mayhem, if they are strictly adhered to. Salvation comes when one 'plays it by ear', or rather eye, and lets instinct override the printed word.
So when I let you see a picture of two of the four small garments I've produced, don't think their size bears any relation to the hours of frustration incurred during the making thereof. Hehehe!
I'm okay with knitting as long as I'm going forwards. As soon as I drop a stitch or make a mistake, I can't seem to go backwards and mend it. Useless.
ReplyDeleteSweet little coverups.
ReplyDeleteI once knitted my way through a pattern book of my grandmother's; circa 1920. Every pattern contained the following sentence several times: "If you have done this correctly...."
That's OK until you encounter a mis-print, when no amount of 'doing things correctly' as per the pattern can help a desperate knitter!
DeleteTime to swap hat band for one that reads 'Editor' :)
Brilliant that you are back! Bloggersville has been a bit sparse lately!
ReplyDeleteLove your knitted garments. I can imagine that you might have been in a fix if the pattern was printed wrong but you did very well to get it right.
Maggie x
Nuts in May
Glad to see you...its been awhile and you have been
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Sandi
If only knitting patterns told us to do what we want them to do and not what they told us to do. Or something!
ReplyDeleteForgot to say . . the little coats look lovely. So clever.
DeleteHello my friend, Great works of wool, and I seem to be lacking time to compute these days also.
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