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Knitting progresses
Jun. 21st, 2010 01:40 pmFinished up the orange wedge side -- which puts me at about halfway done (I still need to do the other side and then sew it up, and also probably add lining). I switched stranding techniques midway through because I got lazy, and I'm not sure which I like better -- the first method (twisting every two stitches) is a complete pain to deal with, but it looks pretty on the wrong side, and my brain insists the fabric would hold together better; the second method (letting the non-working yarn drop and then bringing it up from underneath), contrary to what my brain insists, works better at the color changes. I don't know how much of the difference is the stranding method and how much is the mechanics of the bag.
(Once I dig out my camera ... and charge it, and figure out wtf I did with the card that can then transfer photos to my computer ... I might show off the back side so the differences are visible.)
I have set that project aside, however, for a lace scarf that I'm test-knitting. (There's a group on ravelry where designers can find free test knitters, which is all kinds of awesome.) The lace is something I can only do in short stretches -- I did some this morning, and knew it was time to stop when, doing "yo ssk", I paused midway through the ssk and freaked because my yarn was coming from the front of the needles. (For those who don't know knitting: for knit stitches, which includes ssk, the yarn starts at the back of the work. If you accidentally have the yarn start at the front of the work, you will create an accidental yarn over, which makes a loop and an extra stitch and is really annoying to deal with. Except that in this case, I was /supposed/ to do a yarn over.)
... will take photos when I can figure out the best way to photograph it. It's darker yarn, which is very pretty but also doesn't show some of the stitches quite as well and is hard to photograph.
(I also have been freaking out slightly because I'm not far enough along that it looks like the pattern, and my perfectionist brain is flailing because of that, but I keep telling myself that a) lace is always distorted close to the needles, b) it will look better in a few repeats, and c) it hasn't been blocked.)
My brain is very weird when it comes to knitting. I was a little afraid to cast on, for no explicable reason; the first rows are just garter stitch, and then a bit later I was a little apprehensive about starting the lace chart stuff. Which ... I mean, it's fairly hard to permanently mess up in knitting. You might have to frog back if you do stuff wrong, or deal with dropped stitches (but lace is weeeird when it comes to dropped stitches), but it's not a permanent mess-up. And yet I am worried because I might be doing it wrong? *sigh*
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Writing progresses are pretty much the same. I am worried about Doing It Wrong. Plus, there's a story that I'm making no progress on because a) the spot that I'm on is kind of slow and sticky (and for all that I know I can just skip ahead, there is a part of me that insists on writing linearly) and b) the already-written stuff has the pacing /way/ off at the beginning and, while I don't necessarily know how to fix it per se, I know what it is that is going wrong and so I want to go back and edit it. Without having a completed draft.
This whole thing, methinks, is an exercise in overcoming my brain. Or something.
(Once I dig out my camera ... and charge it, and figure out wtf I did with the card that can then transfer photos to my computer ... I might show off the back side so the differences are visible.)
I have set that project aside, however, for a lace scarf that I'm test-knitting. (There's a group on ravelry where designers can find free test knitters, which is all kinds of awesome.) The lace is something I can only do in short stretches -- I did some this morning, and knew it was time to stop when, doing "yo ssk", I paused midway through the ssk and freaked because my yarn was coming from the front of the needles. (For those who don't know knitting: for knit stitches, which includes ssk, the yarn starts at the back of the work. If you accidentally have the yarn start at the front of the work, you will create an accidental yarn over, which makes a loop and an extra stitch and is really annoying to deal with. Except that in this case, I was /supposed/ to do a yarn over.)
... will take photos when I can figure out the best way to photograph it. It's darker yarn, which is very pretty but also doesn't show some of the stitches quite as well and is hard to photograph.
(I also have been freaking out slightly because I'm not far enough along that it looks like the pattern, and my perfectionist brain is flailing because of that, but I keep telling myself that a) lace is always distorted close to the needles, b) it will look better in a few repeats, and c) it hasn't been blocked.)
My brain is very weird when it comes to knitting. I was a little afraid to cast on, for no explicable reason; the first rows are just garter stitch, and then a bit later I was a little apprehensive about starting the lace chart stuff. Which ... I mean, it's fairly hard to permanently mess up in knitting. You might have to frog back if you do stuff wrong, or deal with dropped stitches (but lace is weeeird when it comes to dropped stitches), but it's not a permanent mess-up. And yet I am worried because I might be doing it wrong? *sigh*
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Writing progresses are pretty much the same. I am worried about Doing It Wrong. Plus, there's a story that I'm making no progress on because a) the spot that I'm on is kind of slow and sticky (and for all that I know I can just skip ahead, there is a part of me that insists on writing linearly) and b) the already-written stuff has the pacing /way/ off at the beginning and, while I don't necessarily know how to fix it per se, I know what it is that is going wrong and so I want to go back and edit it. Without having a completed draft.
This whole thing, methinks, is an exercise in overcoming my brain. Or something.