{"id":6650,"date":"2012-11-06T14:24:57","date_gmt":"2012-11-06T21:24:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ruffledfeathersandspilledmilk.com\/?p=6650"},"modified":"2012-11-13T06:09:36","modified_gmt":"2012-11-13T13:09:36","slug":"learning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ruffledfeathersandspilledmilk.com\/?p=6650","title":{"rendered":"Learning."},"content":{"rendered":"

Well, there has been a lot of learning going on over here.\u00a0 I took a basic knitting class where I learned, um, the basics.\u00a0 I made a visit to a knitting friend when I dropped a stitch.\u00a0 She showed me how to fix the dropped stitch and lots of other tricks that I barely understood at that time and couldn’t possibly repeat at home.\u00a0 I’ll be back, K, I’ll be back.\u00a0 Plus, a frantic phone call to another knitting friend when I knotted my yarn, none of my co-workers could help me unravel the knot, and I didn’t know if I could cut and retie it or not.\u00a0 And lots of referencing my Guide to Knitting<\/a><\/span> by The Chicks with Sticks, Nancy Queen & Mary Ellen O’Connell, whenever I couldn’t remember what I had learned in class.\u00a0 Also, I learned lots of tolerance for lots of mistakes in my first piece.<\/p>\n

But I did it.<\/p>\n

I knitted a scarf.<\/p>\n

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Please note how it is artistically arrayed for your viewing pleasure.\u00a0 Also to hide all the holes, the randomly alternating knit and purl stitches from when I put my knitting down and forgot what I was doing, the differences in tension, and the curling edges.<\/p>\n

I tried to straighten the edges by putting a heavy plate on it overnight.\u00a0 It didn’t work.\u00a0 Apparently, you should trim your scarf with a border stitch to stop that from happening in a project made with stockinette.\u00a0 I would have known that if I had read the Guide to Knitting<\/span> all the way through before starting my project instead of reading it as I went along.\u00a0 Or if The Chicks with Sticks had put that “cheep” trick on page 41 instead of of page 42.\u00a0 ‘Cause 41 was the page I stopped at when I began knitting my first project.\u00a0 Hey, I knew how to knit and purl by that point, how was I supposed to know I needed to know something else?\u00a0 All that learning was exhausting.\u00a0 Besides, who was going to feed the sheep if I was doing all that reading?\u00a0 The sheep, people!\u00a0 No sheep, no wool, no knitting.\u00a0 I’m just sayin.’<\/p>\n

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Anyway, the most important thing that I learned was something that the fashion industry has known for many years.\u00a0 Put that garment on a pretty model and it doesn’t matter how many times you failed to knit the last stitch, it looks darn good.<\/p>\n

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Pretty said the curling edges made it curl around her neck just perfectly and she happily wore it off to school today.\u00a0 She thought the alternating stitches were stylish.\u00a0 And I don’t think she even noticed the holes.\u00a0 Or the knot knitted in about 3\/4 of the way through.\u00a0 God, I love that kid.\u00a0 She’s always been my favorite daughter.\u00a0 Also, my only daughter.\u00a0 Good thing I got it right the first time.\u00a0 Which is more than I can say for my knitting.<\/p>\n

But I refuse to give up.\u00a0 I am already starting my next scarf and I am trying a new stitch.\u00a0 I am using the Boyfriend Basket Weave Scarf pattern from my Guide to Knitting<\/span>.\u00a0 The Other Half was a bit alarmed at this development.<\/p>\n

“You know me and the boys probably aren’t going to wear any scarves, right?\u00a0 I mean, you’re not making a bunch of scarves for us, right?\u00a0 You know men don’t wear scarves, right?”<\/p>\n

Jeez.\u00a0 Clearly, the scarf is for my boyfriend, hence the title.\u00a0 Which is what The Other Half should really find alarming.\u00a0 Although he is unlikely to be threatened by a scarf-wearing boyfriend.\u00a0 Since, according to him, real men don’t wear scarves.<\/p>\n

“Don’t worry,” I assured him.\u00a0 “I’m adapting the pattern by using a chunky, heathered yarn and saving it to give to my mom.\u00a0 ‘Cause real moms do wear scarves.\u00a0 Besides, I think I’m going to make you a cowl.”<\/p>\n

“What’s a cowl?”\u00a0 he asked.<\/p>\n

I googled it for him and showed him the images.<\/p>\n

“Um, no.\u00a0 I’m not wearing that either, ” he declared.\u00a0 “Please note that all the cowl wearers in those pictures are women.”<\/p>\n

Well, not all of them.<\/p>\n

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The Other Half is totally getting that cowl for Christmas.<\/p>\n

Now if I can just find that model….you know, just to display my work every once in a while.\u00a0 So I can be sure I’m knitting it properly.\u00a0 I’d hate to have to test it out on the dogs like these people had to do.<\/p>\n

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Oh, wait.\u00a0 That cowl was actually made for that dog.\u00a0 By these people<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Huh.\u00a0 I’m not sure he’s wearing that right.\u00a0 Although he is wearing it without pants, just like the male model.\u00a0 So I guess he knows what he’s doing.\u00a0 Probably.\u00a0 Maybe.<\/p>\n

Dogs in cowls.\u00a0 Learn something new everyday.\u00a0 I wonder how many skeins of yarn I’d need for Bruno?\u00a0 Does yarn even come in the color “majestic”?<\/p>\n

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And if I made him one, would everyone else in the barn yard want one, too?\u00a0 An nice cream mohair to offset the chickens’ golden feathers?<\/p>\n

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Will C.C. want a bright teal to match her halter?<\/p>\n

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And what color goes best with Charlotte???!!!!<\/p>\n

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I mean, where does this trend end?<\/p>\n

I better get back to my knitting.\u00a0 Obviously, I have a lot more learning, and maybe a whole lot of knitting, to do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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