April 20, 2007

Knitty gritty

Filed under: Knitting — Shauna @ 3:49 pm

I haven’t knitted anything lately except a cozy for Sammy, my iPod. I used a purple yarn that I bought in order to knit a squid hat for one of my online friends. (Incidentally, this squid hat pattern is bizarrely difficult to follow, but I vow to someday finish it. Preferably before my friend’s child turns 58.)

Anyway, I don’t know why I chose purple yarn for my cozy, because purple hasn’t been my favorite color since I was 11 and obsessed with unicorns, Espirit bags and jelly shoes.

But how can I explain this, then?

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This is the tank top I knitted last year. With super heavy yarn. Yarn for a tank top. A tank top meant to be worn during the SUMMER.

Note to self: use brain more often.

This was the first garment I knitted. I worked laboriously on it, and when it came time to make the armhole decreases, I had to actually write out whether each stitch should be knitted or purled, because the stupid pattern had to LINE UP and if I was one stitch off, everything would be ruined. My brain ached from this pattern.

Also, my knitting needles gave me a splinter.

But I prevailed. I succeeded in making the armholes even, I made the side seams invisible and the thing actually looked like the pattern in the book.

I’ve haven’t worn it since.

4 Comments

  1. Hey, I like it! You could still wear it in the winter with a cardigan.

    Comment by Susan — April 20, 2007 @ 10:28 pm

  2. Thanks! Yeah, I think I’ll try wearing it underneath something.

    Comment by Shauna — April 21, 2007 @ 8:07 pm

  3. Cute! I was thinking the same thing as Susan. Wearing it under a blazer or cardigan would look nice. I still haven’t attempted to knit anything that’s not a rectangle. I have some nice alpaca yarn waiting to be used but I’m too afraid!

    Comment by Sara — April 23, 2007 @ 7:07 am

  4. I’m new to your site so sorry about comments on ooooold posts, but I just have to say- I knit myself a tank top once, labored over the pattern, was insanely proud of it turning out like it looked in the book, then put it on and was like gah! sweat! eek! itchy! why tank top made of yarn? why? what was i THINKING? I, too, have not worn it since.

    Comment by pseudostoops — March 23, 2008 @ 10:36 am

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