Craft Enabled, Domestically Disabled: I loathe the purl stitch

I'm finding various online "design your own figure"-type sites and trying to design figures that look as close to me as possible for a self-portrait collage project. This is surprisingly tricky when one (a) wears glasses, which aren't always offered, and (b) normally has blonde/brown hair and currently dyes it vaguely-reddish/blonde. What hair color to pick?

June 24, 2010

I loathe the purl stitch

I've never really liked purling anyway, but it is COMPLETELY SCREWING ME when it comes to the #!2 skirt FROM HELL.

I thought I was doing okay at it, right? I had to take out about two inches for screwups during vacation, sigh, but that still left me like 4-5.

Then last night I discovered there were some dropped stitches. One of which was about 3/4 of an inch away from the BOTTOM OF THE DAMN THING. Why did I not notice this? Because all the mistakes are on the purled side, so I don't notice when a stitch drops or is put in incorrectly. I FUCKING HATE THE PURL STITCH.

Yes, I had to take 95% of it so far OUT. I am pretty close to just giving up on this damn thing again with its tiny needles and slowness. Or just starting over the Saturday In The Park dress, since I got new yarn on vacation to make it in. That, at least, promises to be done in bigger needles.

June 24, 2010 at 11:20 AM in Knitting | Permalink

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