I have knitter’s block. You all know how it is – I started a holiday gift around December of last year and it remains unfinished. No matter how hard I try, I cannot finish this project! Every time I pick it up, I am instantly bored, longing to start something new.
To be honest, I think I have a problem with sweaters. Students have often asked me, “what kinds of projects do you do?” Specifically, people want to know how many sweaters I have made. As someone who considers herself a relatively experienced knitter and instructor, I do not want my skills judged by the measly three sweaters I have completed (two of these were quite small children’s’ sweaters). Maybe a sweater is just too big of a project for me. I’ve never even attempted an afghan or blanket. The first sweater I made was started, worked diligently on, and completed. Is it considered completed if I never put the buttons on it? Hmm…in that case, bring me down to a measly two children’s sweaters.
I have had a relationship with one sweater for almost six years. It is a big sweater, XL men’s, but the size isn’t really the issue. The knitting has actually been finished for probably three years. I can’t face the seaming. I know I’m not alone here; I have met professional seamers over the years, people who do nothing but take people’s sweaters and sew up the seams. So there it sits, partially seamed, at the bottom of a pile of knitting.
Anyways, the current sweater I can’t finish doesn’t even require seaming! It’s knit in the round and I have about 12” on one sleeve left to complete. And then the sweater’s totally done. But I still can’t face it! I’m afraid I’ve put it off so long that now, nearly a year later, I’ve discovered I didn’t buy enough yarn in the first place, and I have run out. I know all the tricks about getting new yarn and joining it, pulling it back and alternating rows if it doesn’t really match, but how can I face something like that when I can’t even face the basic knitting? I may just cut off the other sleeve, and make it a short-sleeved hooded sweater.
What do you think?
To be honest, I think I have a problem with sweaters. Students have often asked me, “what kinds of projects do you do?” Specifically, people want to know how many sweaters I have made. As someone who considers herself a relatively experienced knitter and instructor, I do not want my skills judged by the measly three sweaters I have completed (two of these were quite small children’s’ sweaters). Maybe a sweater is just too big of a project for me. I’ve never even attempted an afghan or blanket. The first sweater I made was started, worked diligently on, and completed. Is it considered completed if I never put the buttons on it? Hmm…in that case, bring me down to a measly two children’s sweaters.
I have had a relationship with one sweater for almost six years. It is a big sweater, XL men’s, but the size isn’t really the issue. The knitting has actually been finished for probably three years. I can’t face the seaming. I know I’m not alone here; I have met professional seamers over the years, people who do nothing but take people’s sweaters and sew up the seams. So there it sits, partially seamed, at the bottom of a pile of knitting.
Anyways, the current sweater I can’t finish doesn’t even require seaming! It’s knit in the round and I have about 12” on one sleeve left to complete. And then the sweater’s totally done. But I still can’t face it! I’m afraid I’ve put it off so long that now, nearly a year later, I’ve discovered I didn’t buy enough yarn in the first place, and I have run out. I know all the tricks about getting new yarn and joining it, pulling it back and alternating rows if it doesn’t really match, but how can I face something like that when I can’t even face the basic knitting? I may just cut off the other sleeve, and make it a short-sleeved hooded sweater.
What do you think?
1 comment:
I think short-sleeved, hooded sweater would be really cute and unique!
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