How not to start a project, found a pattern for the yarn that was to be used for 1920 in 2013, crash and burn shawl. It kinda' went smoothly or as smoothly as any starts that I do. Oh, you want the name of ......... it's Coleridge. Named it Stand in for 1920 in 2013, crash and burn. (am almost over it, why do you ask??)
Cast
on 97 stitches. Knit maybe 10 rows,
notice something wonky, spend time trying to fix. Give up, remove from needles, decide this was
serendipitous since it was going to be too large anyways……….. cast on 81 stitches, worked up to the row 15,
the row with the bobbles, bobbles suck, but knit the bobbles anyways. Work the return row, stop to
admire sucky bobbles. Decide that, yes, bobbles really do
suck. Decide beads would be a better
choice. Decide that if using beads a
cast on with beads would be special. Decide
that using the word decide is fuckin’ redundant…. Decide to stop using the word decide. Spend maybe an hour or more trying to figure
out how to spread out beads on the cast on row.
Figure it out after maybe three tries, yeah I know, math, yeah, math sucks. Cast on successfully with beads Knit up to the bobble row and substitute a
bead for the bobbles. And we are now
happy, well at least for now. (yes,am aware that the use of the word suck was redundant)
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| ya will have to just take my word for it it blocks out nicely, honest |
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| can you see the beads? |
And
then there is this mess, the fruggn' nightmare shawl
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| yes, I am still tinking away one this one, sigh!! the yarn is beautiful and just so right if only I would stop screwing up |
Maybe, now we should talk about FOs, stuff I have actually managed to finish,
and even to block in a not so timely fashion.
 April KAL, a little yarn work 
note: this was an April KAL
it is now what, July/Aug
after blocking all was forgiven,
this damn thing was a fuckin' crank.
and this, seaweed switched at birth
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Thanks for the FO's. I pick the cotton one. Thank you.
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