Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new. | I admit it. My last post was a lie. Or a half-truth. Anyway, the real & full truth is that I did not finish Jamie's scarf and up until this evening I could not finish hers or Katii's. I committed the biggest crocheter's sin, I didn't buy enough yarn. |
I have no excuse on Katii's except to say that when I bought her yarn I bought one skein of sparkly purple on a whim and then when I asked her she said she wanted that to be the main yarn. I really thought I would have had enough. No such luck. When it comes to Jamie's I used a sparkly grey (gray?) that I've had in my stash for at least a year. I'm fairly sure I had two skeins way back when but used the first up along the way. Sonofabitch.
The moral of the story: Always buy two skeins. At least two skeins.
When I ran out of yarn for Katii's I set it aside with Jaime's unfinished scarf and moved on to the gift I'm making for my aunt Kristy. Kristy, my mother's sister, is one of the most loving, generous, and kindhearted women I've ever known and I'm blessed to be able to call her family. I won't share exactly what I'm making for her on the off chance she's reading these posts so she'll be surprised when she gets her gift in the mail. I will say that the pattern I'm using for her gift is way more complicated than I've used before. Most of the time the patterns I use have at the most five different instructions that get repeated until you reach the end. This pattern has almost no duplicated rows. That means I can't run on auto-pilot, which isn't a bad thing...just takes some getting used to.
After work this evening I went out a remedied my earlier mistake. Of course I had to go to both Michaels and AC Moore because it's raining and nothing can be simple. Oy. Here's hoping I don't repeat this mistake too often.
The moral of the story: Always buy two skeins. At least two skeins.
When I ran out of yarn for Katii's I set it aside with Jaime's unfinished scarf and moved on to the gift I'm making for my aunt Kristy. Kristy, my mother's sister, is one of the most loving, generous, and kindhearted women I've ever known and I'm blessed to be able to call her family. I won't share exactly what I'm making for her on the off chance she's reading these posts so she'll be surprised when she gets her gift in the mail. I will say that the pattern I'm using for her gift is way more complicated than I've used before. Most of the time the patterns I use have at the most five different instructions that get repeated until you reach the end. This pattern has almost no duplicated rows. That means I can't run on auto-pilot, which isn't a bad thing...just takes some getting used to.
After work this evening I went out a remedied my earlier mistake. Of course I had to go to both Michaels and AC Moore because it's raining and nothing can be simple. Oy. Here's hoping I don't repeat this mistake too often.