little bitty girl

What a completely novel idea!

I don't know why I never ever thought about it when this is such a good solution to a sometimes extremely frustrating endeavour.

As you all know, especially these past few months of gift giving that I have been attempting to be crafty. Sometimes it goes ok, but usually it goes like this -

Joy at finding the perfect yarn
Inspiration ensues
Work begins
Add a stitch accidentally
Unravel
Rework
Drop a stitch accidentally
Unravel
Rework
Tension is not the same as previous
Unravel
Rework
Unravel
Rework
Knitting needles flying in the air
Sulking
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Start it all over again.

At least, with this option I can just walk away from a project without doing anything detrimental to my anal retentive self. After all, it doesn't mean that I've lost, it simply means the yarn has lost its right to be a scarf.

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Posted in Working Hands and Feet

I have serious craft envy. I am NOT crafty. It's quite the sad situation.

All my various friends seems to be craft masters and then there is the world of incredibly crafty people, Loobylu, Wee Wonderfuls and Liquid Paper being my current favourites. Then there is me and I am made of all toes. Not even thumbs! Toes.

For some reason, I decided I was going to teach myself how to crochet. Stefan's question to me was,"Why?"

I don't know why. I'd like to think that if I tried, I could figure it out but craft is not like wordplay or a math problem where I can somehow just figure it out. It's just some really alien form to me. I think I should stick with collages.

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Posted in Me-ness, Working Hands and Feet

I was testing out a new knit stitch and had knitted about 4 inches when I decided that I wasn't sure about it. Stefan, who can never bear for me to knit and unravel decided he would try to sell the product to me.

Stefan: Sweetie! Don't unravel it! Here, let me look at it....

He looks at it and started pointing out the "selling points"

Stefan: Well, it's got a nice V pattern. Lots of great texture. AND LOOK! When you lay it flat, it looks like little ski moguls.

I started unravelling the thing pretty darn quickly after that.

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Posted in What's Buggin' Me, Working Hands and Feet

I have finally finished the scarf that I have been working on. It's almost completely flawless OTHER THAN THE FACT THAT IT IS TOO SHORT!!!

I tend to like my scarves super long. This one does wrap around the neck but just barely and they do not have any of the yarn left to make it longer.

I am about to start developing high blood pressure over this. I should probably pick up another hobby that has less stress. Like stamp collecting.

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Posted in What's Buggin' Me, Working Hands and Feet

I am making a scarf for one of my friend's Christmas gift. Everyone knows that I am a lover of yarn and knitting books. I am not a particularly good knitter and am especially, an impatient one. The downfall is that I am also a perfectionist who cannot pick up dropped stitches. Which means that I will unravel a scarf that is seventy five percent done, down to the very start. I have done this at least twelve times today. So whoever gets a scarf from me this year, even if you do not like it, you'd better damn well smile and say you do.

And know that I love you, very much.

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Posted in What's Buggin' Me, Working Hands and Feet

I was originally going to lie about this because sometimes I do that - it's a weird thing I have about waiting to hear or see people's reactions to something I do before confessing to actually doing it. Maybe because I think so many of my friends are so super talented and I am a little mediocre in comparison especially when it comes to crafty things.

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Posted in Joy-Friends, Me-ness, Working Hands and Feet