I don't want to sound like a snob, but I hate the suburbs. I live in what is now an "inner city" suburb (6 kms from the CBD) and I don't like going outside Melbourne's trams zone, unless it' all the way outside. (Trams or trees, Skip calls it). So when the wrap I've been knitting is called Suburban Wrap, and I've felt ambivalent about it the whole time, it's not so surprising. I guess I started knitting it in the lull before Bendigo, when I was in a bit of a directionless slump about what to knit next.
The actual knitting of it was ok, it was sort of fun, but I was having increasing doubts about how it looks. I decided to lengthen it, and then second guessed myself, so ended up mainly changing around the final patterns, which I'm glad I did, since it avoids the (in my opinion) excessive final stripe pattern.
Last Saturday afternoon Leon was out and I marathon knit it, sewing in the last end as my lift arrived to take me to a beer event (Ramjet day) in an industrial park in the very suburban suburb of Braeside.
Unusually I wore the unblocked scarf, and the first thing that happened when we got there is a friend of a friend complemented me on it.
I blocked it on Sunday and it grew to a decent length. It's actually a pretty wearable garment. I knit and wear shawls all the time, but this is an actual scarf, that I can wear with jeans and a jacket. I guess the lesson is, don't prejudge and don't be a snob. Or maybe there is no lesson here except that i needed a good scarf and now I have one.
The actual knitting of it was ok, it was sort of fun, but I was having increasing doubts about how it looks. I decided to lengthen it, and then second guessed myself, so ended up mainly changing around the final patterns, which I'm glad I did, since it avoids the (in my opinion) excessive final stripe pattern.
Unusually I wore the unblocked scarf, and the first thing that happened when we got there is a friend of a friend complemented me on it.
I blocked it on Sunday and it grew to a decent length. It's actually a pretty wearable garment. I knit and wear shawls all the time, but this is an actual scarf, that I can wear with jeans and a jacket. I guess the lesson is, don't prejudge and don't be a snob. Or maybe there is no lesson here except that i needed a good scarf and now I have one.
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