I don't think I would ever use the term "fun" to describe knitting. Relaxing, yes; satisfying, yes. I also don't think this cover did anything to sell the idea that knitting is fun.
Hand knitted shorts and matching top? Now THAT's a kickin' outfit! And I LOVE those sandals!
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I bought the Stitch'n bitch book, and I am learning plein de choses. Such as: Madeline Albright and Sarah Jessica Parker are avid knitters, as are both Hot Lips Houlihan and Hawkeye Pierce. Hm.
My knitter profile is not so promising. A yarn snob, who hates the feeling of anything affordable or sturdy, I come out somewhere between the "She's Gotta Have It" knitter, who thinks she can knit something on par with what she would buy at the mall and the "Dilettante" knitter, who covets all the spendiest yarns. To bad I don't have my ascending sign (or whatever) in the house of the "Hurts So Good" knitter, who loves challenge and complication. I don't want to use a pattern, and I definitely don't want to knit any test runs, first.
Right now I'm working on a wrappy demi-blanket shawl-type thing, which looks to be coming out nicely, but I'll be out of yarn soon and that means I'll need to go plunk down another 60 euros on alpaca wool for the other half.
But look! I made it myself.
I've given up trying to make practical/wearable things (except for Thomas, who is a wonderfully gratifying lab rat. What other kid would say, "I love this sweater because the colors are so RADIANT!") and now focus on trying to master a skill or solve an engineering problem. Thomas has asked for a vertically striped sweater (5 different colors) and a sweater with various sized circles all over it. (The circle sweater has to be lime with grape purple dots!) The dots are possible, but tedious unless you can knit with two yarns, one in each hand, at the same time. I haven't done it but am determined to give it a go. Solving the problem of vertical stripes still eludes me, but I am determined to puzzle through it.
Thomas is rather fabulous.
All I seem to want to do is loose-knit extravagant clouds of blankety stuff and then drap myself in it like it's fur. You know, off the shoulder and stuff. Pinned with brooches.
I like your Valentine's Day heart.
I have a plan in my head for knitting an anatomically-correct sweater and leggings set in a cooked fat sort of color, with big, flabby rolls hanging around the gut and backside. It'll be called, "Does this make me look fat?"
I think I might be going slightly crazy.
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