So, what has been going on in my yarny life? The baby blanket from hell, that's what. Minus the whole how-does-the-woman-struggling-with-infertility-manage-knitting-baby-blankets angle (that might be a whole post to itself) there is the whole knitting the stupid thing in and of itself. I'm not a fast knitter as I only took up knitting about a year ago, and everything I know is self-taught. But I was pretty confident I could do this. And the pattern is completely super easy. I was even able to successfully rip out stitches when I did mess up (before I have just been restarting the project or ignoring the mess-up). It's just going so sloooow!!! I've tried listening to music and podcast sermons and watching my current fave TV show (Sherlock...just in case you are wondering) and nothing seems to help the time go by. So, what have I done to cope?
Started a new project.
Kind of counter intuitive, I know, but I was getting desperately bored with the baby blanket. So I've started a cute little turtle pillow pet which is kind of like amigurumi on a grander scale. I want to make one for each of my nephews (I have three) and I've already started thinking about how I can mod the pattern to make a unicorn for my youngest niece. So hopefully the baby blanket won't be completely forgotten because it was actually a commission. That is if the person decides to pay me. This time, no money, no product.
