Commitment issues

[knitty_woman]

Still haven't found the perfect cape pattern.  Maybe I'm not really committed to a cape.  As Stephanie Pearl-McPhee says in her Knitting Rules, "Socks and hats are fun and, in their elevated forms, can certainly be artful, but sweaters [and by extension, capes] are like a marriage (or at least an engagement."  Ok, I've done a baby sweater, which by

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[quyllur]

I'm sure you will find a pattern eventually. I wish I had something to suggest but I don't think I have a cape pattern in my pattern box. Sweaters, yes, socks, yes, but no capes. I really like how you put that "but sweaters are a marriage." I know they are for me, because I never can do ANYTHING quickly.

I've been knitting since I was six I don't make socks very often, but I love the challenge of turning a heel. I love the picture of your socks. They are so neat.

I found you by way of fluterbev's journal. Isn't she wonderful? What fandom stories do you read? I absolutely adore The Sentinel, and love flutterbev's Three Spirals. She can MaryJane her Irish house all she wants!!

I hope you don't mind that I've friended you!

[knitty_woman]

Hi - you're the first person to post in my journal! Thanks! I certainly don't mind being friended, especially by a knitter who likes Fluterbev! I'll friend you back as soon as I figure out how

[quyllur]

I still have the first "piece" I knitted at age six. A "shaw" for my Barbie doll. ::G:: It looks like a six year old's first piece, too