Day 14, 2015 Year of the Seam
Does anyone know what kind of Hawk was waiting for breakfast in my yard this morning?
Cooper's Hawk? It is not a red tail.
Fireman spotted him in the tree and called me over.
Hawks are so cool aren't they?
I know they are picking off a sparrow or two around here, but they have to eat too. I was overjoyed to see this one!
And now for my public apology to Meredith. I'm frogging lady Kina.
It's not her fault that I put the arms in two non balanced places. It's not her fault that I had to learn the hard way how to manipulate all those stitches on the biggest needles I own.
Poor Lady Kina, I cannot bear to keep going. I can't even keep going unless I frog back to the arm parts.
I'm not having any fun.
I put her in a time out and thought long and hard about the sweater.
Moving on!
Now for the good news. I learned there may be a nice benefit to learning to knit in pieces and not in the round.
I really need to be able to SEE the whole as I knit.
After all, my resolution this year is to LOOK at my knitting right?
So I have to learn to seam this year...that's a fine goal.
I LOVE the yarn and the color.
I'm thinking a two piece vest is in order.
Mere, I know when you finish your Lady Kina I'll be jealous!
So am I the first to frog in 2015?
Knit on my friends, and be happy!
Comments
I finally finished my Colored Scarf. I'm still crazy about it, but think my granddaughter will like it. It was fun using up all my mini skeins and leftover fingering weight yarn.
I'm sure Lady Kina understands, and bears you no ill will.
The hawk is handsome, but I don't know what he is.
Fortunately, no knitting frogs here, but I've had several cross stitch frogs. I am currently stitching on the WRONG side of perforated paper. But, really .....it won't be noticed when I'm done. I'm leaving it as it is. I'm too far in to switch it around now. LOL
Go Frogger!! Yea, yea, yea!!
Save that yarn for a better day!! (My latent cheerleader)
After I learned to seam I found that I still did not enjoy it so I started sewing my sweater pieces together with the machine. It works and they look great, AND the sweater holds up through washing and wearing much better.
I agree with your thoughts about knitting in pieces. Knitting seamless garments is hard. They go on forever and it is difficult to make adjustments in them. I learned that the hard way with my Featherweight that went in the trash after I felted it trying to adjust the size.
I am going to try Katherine's idea about machine seaming. Why not? I seam my weaving on the machine.
Hugs,
Meredith