she was amazed

Posted by mirjam on August 12, 2009, 11:50 pm

Yesterday while traveling by Bus i saw that i lost a stitch in my
knitting and wasn`t really happy with the result , thus i unravelled
the knitted part ,,, a woman next to me was amazed , and asked why i
unravelled it , i told her why !!! she said she rarely knits and when
she does she Usually has lots of mistakes , but she would never
unravel it ,,,, i told her it is a matter of age [hahah] with age one
knows that looking at errors , annoys one ,,,,,and anyway it is better
to love one`s knitting ,,,, she wasn`t convinced at all..... but i
already cast on my [re]newed knitted sts ,,,than she was amazed at my
casting on by knitting ,,,
i already knitted the length i unraveled but now i am very happy with
the result and try to make some thing new in pattern for myself ....
mirjam

Posted by Spikedriver on August 13, 2009, 3:04 am

mirjam wrote:
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I agree Mirjam. The older I get the more perfect I want my work.

It is getting harder to achieve. :)

Dennis

Posted by mirjam on August 13, 2009, 2:31 am

Hallo Dennis
How are you ?
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i think that with Age we already have some made things , and aren`t
`growing` much thus this too allows the wish to make it all better !!!
mirjam

Posted by Lisa in NJ on August 17, 2009, 3:14 pm

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I totally understand!
I'm a novice knitter, and I make lots of mistakes, so I do quite a bit of
unraveling. Sometimes I wonder why, myself. Perhaps it is, after all, my
age. If I spend the time making something, I want it right. Or perhaps it
has to do with wanting the same satisfaction from the finished product as
from the knitting itself.
Just yesterday I noticed that my second ever pair of socks had one sock
longer than the other (it is ok to laugh - I am not sure how that happened,
especially as I knit them from the toe up!). I will be putting the shorter
sock and leftover yarn on a scale and comparing the weight to the longer one
to see which sock cuff to unravel. At least I have some time before I want
to wear them, as it is turning out to be a very warm end-of-summer here in
New Jersey.

Lisa

Posted by Linda Lee on August 17, 2009, 11:32 pm

If I see a mistake in my knitting you better believe it gets unravelled
pretty fast. I would never be happy knowing there was a mistake.

I knit for charities mostly with plain old 'Red Heart' yarns but each
item is knitted with love.

And I have a thing for knitted dishcloths. I don't use them personally
but I have several people who ask for them every year. :-)

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