Saturday, July 10, 2010

I knit like a mother.

My mother says it's painful to watch me knit. This, while not encouraging, is true.
She knits without looking, and the needles sound like a machine-gun.
I knit slowly, with much cursing, and my tongue poking out of the side of my mouth. I drop stitches, and make up new ones. I get bored very easily.

So, about 3 years ago, I started knitting the Princess a scarf. "HA!" I thought. "This will be easy! Big needles, thick fluffy wool, plus it's - you know - a scarf. Knit 12, repeat. Pieca-cake."

Note I said 3 YEARS ago.

You see, I started well. I got a few inches done quickly, and while I wasn't looking, Handsome Son found the needles and thought they would make great swords, and pulled them both clean out.
I unravelled and started again.
This happened a couple of times, till I trained myself to put the knitting properly away.
You know that old saying 'out of sight, out of mind'? Yeah.

So last night I took it out and knitted up almost an entire ball of wool while watching Bones.
True, there is a wonky bit where I discovered I had 13 stitches and had to knit 2 together so one edge has a small dewlap, but at least it looks like a scarf now and Handsome Son no longer needs to make swords from my needles, so there is a small chance The Princess will actually get her scarf before she leaves home.
She better freakin wear it every chance she gets.

PS I started knitting it last night so I could cross it off my TO DO list on the side there -- and realised just now that it isn't even on the list. Sigh.

10 comments:

  1. OMG Toni I can't stop laughing....

    I love how your tongue hangs out the side OMG I am off again heeeeheeee.
    careful you don't knit it into the scarf....

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  2. LMAO Ann that was so funny I nearly spat coffee on my keyboard!

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  3. Can you edit something on your list, like say the cross-stitch project? Change it to "knit scarf"? No one would know (but me). Just do it. Do it!!

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  4. Sooooo.... Toni do we actually get to see the 'said scarf' ???? hehehehe

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  5. She better freakin wear it every chance she gets.


    BAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!

    xox

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  6. I once started a matinee jacket for my fourth baby, it was finished by the time he was in the first grade and I donated it to a stall at the school fete.

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  7. Had to laugh ... did I really say that? You know what's funny though ... I haven't knitted anything since about 1999, and yesterday I started knitting a cardy for myself.

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  8. I bet you finish it before I finish the scarf! (:

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