Say Goodbye
Jun 19th, 2007 by jennie
Sorry for the long absence. There have been days of laziness, days of crankiness, and two days in a row where I wrote long posts that the computer subsequently ate. I will not rewrite those posts today. I’ll consider them stories for another time.
In the meanwhile, say good bye to this:
Remember T-SALP, which has been languishing away on-the-needles for over a year? I gave up today. In my new state of mature knitterdom, I have realized the following things about myself:
1. If I love a pattern, I’ll finish it quickly. If I am not motivated to knit it, it will never get done.
2. Beautiful yarn is beautiful yarn, and too nice to waste. I shouldn’t let my sense of obligation or fear of wasted time prevent me from using a lovely yarn to it’s fullest potential.
3. As much as it hurts to rip, it always feels better when it’s over.
And so… a years worth of work (which amounted to a measly 19 inches) will shortly be ripped.
The pattern I chose — a standard Feather and Fan lace — is beautiful, but so damn tedious, I can’t stand it.
I chose to knit a stole, rather than a shawl, and the lack of variation from row to row (no increases, not decreases, nothing but sameness row after row after row) killed any excitement I might have had. And so… In a desperate desire to finish, to give my mom this gift that has been hiding out of sight (so I don’t feel guilty) in my OTN basket, I rip.
So much less painful than I thought it would be.
better to rip than to let beautiful yarn waste away in a WIP bag. good for you!
Sometimes just actually making the move to change it is often less painful than pondering the actual ripping, isn’t it?
Congrats! There’s something really satisfying about that soft popping sound as you rip, don’t you think?
I’ve been wanting to make myself a stole for awhile now, and I’m having some trouble reconciling what I would want to wear (something fairly simple) and what I want to knit (not too repetitive). I’ll be interested to see what you do with that yarn — it’s Sundara, right? So so so beautiful.
I’m with Stella. That sound *is* satisfying. I’ve come to those realizations too. I need to be excited about the pattern, and the yarn, and the yarn with that pattern.
Very mature of you.
Out with the annoying and tedious, in with the exciting and new… good move.
Congratulations - it is important to face these things!
Goodbye T-SALP. See you on the flip side…
Letting it marinate for a year before ripping really does reduce the pain, I’ve found!