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Sunday, May 17th, 2009 12:40 pm
I am having the worst time with this stupid sweater, but I've invested too much to pull it out and start over. (I'm 5 balls of yarn into it. You see the woe involved in pulling out five balls of yarn.) I found the pattern on Ravelry and it looked simple enough. Except the sizing is all wonky. I chained the number for my size and did the first two rows. Then I wrapped it around myself because it seemed really, really long. And it was. I could wrap it completely around myself and then again half. It is not a wrap style sweater. So then I pulled out the two rows and some of the chains and I think I should have just stuck with the original because I have a feeling that this is going to be the most WTF thing I've ever made.

Have you had any seriously messed up projects? What did you do when you realized that things were just going downhill?

On a much happier note, how about a couple of finished projects?

I caved and bought a pattern book (Leisure Arts' "Cute Little Animals") and have been working my way through that. So far, I have a cat (which is creepy looking), an unfinished puppy (which has been renamed the gingerbread boy), a pirate...
Pirate!
and a... I think it's supposed to be the Loch Ness monster, but I think he's somewhat like a dinosaur, so... whatever, he's Nestor.
Nestor

And working off a favorite scarf pattern, I finished up a cable scarf for a friend of mine that will be here in about two weeks. Just in time, too, because it's getting wintery in her neck of the woods.
Cable Scarf
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Tuesday, May 19th, 2009 10:52 pm (UTC)
Agh, that's why I'm afraid to try making a large wearable.

Hooray for amigurumi! Much love for the pirate.