It's always enough to whore out.
But it still looks like a crumpled mass of purple ramen, so to satisfy my growing urge towards a spray bottle and iron, I decided to pin out the lace to see how it might eventually look.
Oh............fuck.
Apparently my stitch markers are causing the "side seams" to ladder. The @(_#%^@)*#% Stitch Markers!!! I mean, those St st blobs look bad enough on their own but are sort of unavoidable when one takes a flat pattern and knits it in the round without an excruciating amount of mathematics, but seriously now, LADDERS?! Way to smack a huge neon "HEY THIS IS WHERE THE SIDE SEAMS ARE SUPPOSED TO BE" sign on my gorgeous Butterfly! Arrrgggh...
My only plan thus far is to block the everliving crap out of this thing when it's finally done. Hopefully with patience and a lot of steam I can coax those laddered stitches into conformity, and if not, well, you see those 2 lovely balls of yarn in the background? Guess what they're going to be. ^_^
I promised you some painfully blinding ignorance too, didn't I? I'll try to transcribe this as accurately as possible.
The Scene - I'm sitting in front of the TV at work, watching some horrendous movie on Bravo and happily knitting away on Butterfly. A woman who has just placed a carry-out order and must now come to grips with the new 15 minute hole in her life spots me and wanders over.
Woman - ...I guess I'll come watch some TV. sits down
Me - I warn you, this is an absolutely terrible movie.
Woman - giggles
a few minutes go by and the movie gets worse
Woman - What are you making, a bag?
Me - Actually, it's a camisole.
Woman - What?
Me - A camisole.
Woman - What's that?
Me - It's like a tanktop but...lacier.
Woman - Ohhh, so is that, like, sewing?
Me - .........................No, it's knitting.
Woman - Oh.
silence ensues
1 comment:
that's funny. I was making a hat once that everyone thought was a sleeve to a sweater because I was making it so small. It was in rib stitch and after I blocked it it was a normal hat size, but people looked at me like I was crazy when I said it was a hat.
How cool that you are knitting butterfly too! I am very surprised to see that stitch markers would cause that kind of effect... hmm....
I picked light green for mine. I am eager to start but I have to wait until the Olympics begin.
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