Shrugs fall in to the same territory as shawls - more decorative than functional - because of the strange things that happen with the sleeve-type areas. I've yet to find a shrug that I might actually wear.
The lacy sock patterns are no good either. There's always something weird happening at the end of the round that bothers me. Not quite the same as knitting a huge chunk of lace in a shawl, as well.
I think it's the lace-weight yarn + multiple pattern types + blocking so it spreads out and is all nice that really does it for me. It's sort of... each successfully completed row/chunk of the lace pattern gives me a huge endorphin rush.
Oh! I mentioned this at knitting this afternoon (you're the first person I've met that has a 'shawl problem', rather than a hat/scarf/sock/bag problem), and apparently there's a 10 shawls for 2010 challenge on Ravelry.
You know, just in case you need some enabling and want to be hardcore about it.
I'm starting to think about silk painting. The scarves I would make would be better around my neck than most, and I could sell whatever I don't want myself.......
And it would also be okay that i was doing geometric patterns and colorful blobby things, rather than discernible objects.
There is very little heroic and a lot obsessive about the knitting of this shawl. But if you'd use it... well, it's not like it's going to do all that much more than stay folded up in a box or hang off a wall if it stays with me.
I have trouble with shawls and whatnot simply because they fall off. I apparently gesture too much or something.
Your post has made me realize the catch-22 of practicing a craft: before I reach "good at it" status, I wind up producing a lot of half-good junk, which I can't sell (even if it ISN'T copyrighted) or even give as gifts.
Granted, your problem seems to be beyond that, since that shawl right there is AMAZING. At least you'll be surrounded by piles of nice things!
I think that may be the trouble I run into as well - I kind of flail when I talk, and anything draped about my person winds up in mortal peril.
Some crafts are better for reclaiming used materials than others, though. With knitting, at least you can keep the crappy item around and maybe unravel it later and use the yarn for something else, if you're lucky. But with something like pottery... well, once glaze is on that sucker, there's not all that much you can do. With sewing, eventually the cloth gets cut too small or too often and starts unraveling.
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There's also a lot of nice lacey sock patterns that might be more useful.
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The lacy sock patterns are no good either. There's always something weird happening at the end of the round that bothers me. Not quite the same as knitting a huge chunk of lace in a shawl, as well.
I think it's the lace-weight yarn + multiple pattern types + blocking so it spreads out and is all nice that really does it for me. It's sort of... each successfully completed row/chunk of the lace pattern gives me a huge endorphin rush.
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You know, just in case you need some enabling and want to be hardcore about it.
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And it would also be okay that i was doing geometric patterns and colorful blobby things, rather than discernible objects.
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I IMAGINE THAT IS WHAT BATMAN'S SWEET GRANDMOTHER WOULD WEAR
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Your post has made me realize the catch-22 of practicing a craft: before I reach "good at it" status, I wind up producing a lot of half-good junk, which I can't sell (even if it ISN'T copyrighted) or even give as gifts.
Granted, your problem seems to be beyond that, since that shawl right there is AMAZING. At least you'll be surrounded by piles of nice things!
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Some crafts are better for reclaiming used materials than others, though. With knitting, at least you can keep the crappy item around and maybe unravel it later and use the yarn for something else, if you're lucky. But with something like pottery... well, once glaze is on that sucker, there's not all that much you can do. With sewing, eventually the cloth gets cut too small or too often and starts unraveling.
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