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[jadegirl]

My knitting is apparently cursed right now. I thought I'd have to use one more skein on my Faroese shawl to give it an exceptionally good, long drape, down to fingetip length, at least - this because the pattern model used about 800 yards of yarn, and I'm now at about 1000. The model must have been for a midget! It isn't even long enough to reach my wrists - I'm going to need to get 3-4 more 220 yard skeins to get it to the length I want. You see, I'm hoping to wear this in all but the most bitter weather, that's why I'm doing it in garter stitch, to get a nice thick fabric. It's useless if it's too short. Gah. I've been working on this along for about a fortnight now, and am sick unto death of it. I can't start the Icelandic shawl I want until I order two wheels of black unspun, can't dye the wool I have for my slippers until I manage to find unsweetened kool-aid packets, and don't really have yarn suited to any other patterns I have on hand. Gah. Plus, when I put the shawl aside last night, every other knitting related thing I picked up turned out wrong, from yarn breaking in the wrong place to my not being able to figure out the pattern for a cowl called a 'smoke ring' . Gah.

I may set out a saucer of milk for the knitting faeries.

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[typenik.livejournal.com]

That must be going around. I spent a good part of yesterday working on a sock until I came to the sad conclusion at about 11:30 that my gague was way off and there was no way it would ever fit my foot. Hours of work, frogged in a mere instant.

I've since recast on larger needles and higher stitch count, so hopefully breakthroughs are right around the corner. ;)

I've yet to encounter the cursed project ...

[http://users.livejournal.com/_bia_/]

though I've certainly abandoned my fair share ... and seem to have experience the "curse of the row I can't knit right for the life of me" just this evening ... un-knit the same *bleeping* row 3.5 times to fix errors.

I'm very much looking forward to seeing the Icelandic shawl (the Faroese one, too, but I know what to visualize when I think of the Icelandic one).