Am I a glutton for punishment or what? I was perusing my local yarn store on Sunday to learn a stitch I’d not done before. Nothing wrong with that – people do it all the time. I saw this beautiful lace shawl and decided – I can do that. The yarn is so sumptuous and soft and I know I should have kept my hands to myself – but how does one go into a yarn shop and not fondle all the pretty yarn?
So I read the pattern and thought hmm this looks fairly easy – the instructions are clear. I mean really – how hard can it really be? I’m an intelligent person who can read patterns. This can’t possibly be that hard. I was more wrong than two left shoes. It makes the Lady Eleanor shawl look like knitting 101. How come nobody told me that the silk yarn will slide back and forth over the needles causing you to drop stitches that you can’t really see because the yarn is so fine? How come nobody told me that you need peace and quiet to do lace? And how come nobody told my I would stab my fingers way more than I do when I check my blood sugar? I guess I’m just a glutton for punishment.
And to make matters worse – I stumbled on to a blog that has the tessellating fish afghan on it. I know the colors that I want to use – of course none of them are already in my stash…that would be way to easy right? In order for me to create the fish blanket – I gotta de-stash what I have now. I have decided to only buy yarn for projects that I am currently working on. Yeah I know every knitter goes through this – but I will do my best to make it happen. Am I laughing while typing this? Absolutely!!! I mean it! No more random yarn buying! OK now I’m laughing so hard I'm crying! I managed to tickle myself with that one. Seriously…stop laughing! It’s not funny…ok I’m still giggling…
4 comments:
Hmmm I too like yarn..and am Bi-polar so I especially need to stay away from the LYS on the top of my cycle otherwise I impulse buy way too much. Gotta learn too only to buy what I'm going to use not "ooooh a sale!!!" lol
ahahahaha!!! de-stashing; it's the funniest joke since the chicken-walking-out-of-the-brothel one! rofl. i came this >|< to buying more random yarn the other day because i walked into michaels during their dollar days sale. mmmm, cotton yarn on clearance!!!! but i triumphed and did not take any home. *sob* i hate de-stashing. *sob*
ROFL.. too funny. I recall saying the same thing a couple days, month, year ago... as I open the package just delivered to me. Umh, yup, more yarn. One day, I will have will power, not so much today..
I know the feeling...I am always thinking about what I want to do next. Like the fish blanket...here I am using up odds and ends, which is good, but now I want to make one in cotton, which means I'll have to get a stash of cotton odds and ends :) I don't think I could ever not buy or have too much yarn on hand.
happy knitting :)
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