As I was writing the
entry about my current sweater design effort, I surprised myself by
reaching the tentative conclusion that I should rip the whole thing
back (frog it) and do something more compelling with the lovely
yarn. I really had not thought about that before sitting
down and writing out the text. It was an interesting revelation
that had to be considered.
I reflected on it for a couple of days. And, I reviewed my very
old blog entry (see here, and scroll down to “Knitting Broccoli”) about
a previous effort that I slogged through and eventually had to
frog. I compared the projects.
In the end — I think I will not
frog the current design effort, at least not yet. While I am not
wild about the colour combinations, I do feel I am still committed
enough to the project that I am checking important things like length
and other measurements. I am not at all convinced that there is a different pattern of these
same colours that would really cause me to whip through a sweater
project at this time. I’ve been travelling — travel
projects make better progress. Quelle surprise. I do still
believe I will be happy to wear the resulting sweater if I just finish
it, AND I believe that I am making progress (albeit slow) towards
completing it reasonably. That’s a really long-winded way of
working my way to the point that I
think my biggest problem is that I am not spending much time on large
knitting projects at home, and ANYTHING is going to take a long time to
complete.
Somehow, that didn’t stop me from buying 6 skeins (a sweater’s worth)
of Araucania
Azapa (colourway Cornflower) today — I’m in meetings near Knit
Happens, and I Happened to wander in, let my hand touch a skein and
that was just that 🙂