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WIP Wednesday on Thursday

so lately i've been feeling uninspired and i don't feel like knitting or writing blog posts or taking pictures.  this is the 5th time i've started this stupid post.  how do you all find  the time or have the energy to do what it is you do every day?  TELL ME!!!  ( i'm doing that thing that i do.  i've been comparing myself to others again and falling short.  i've got to stop that. )

anyway, earlier in the week when i saw kristen's wonderful crocheted scarf, i thought it might be fun to change things up a bit and do a little crochet  too for a change. 

i looked for a suitable pattern and finding nothing that caught my eye, i just started crocheting.

and it sucked.  like a hoover.  so i frogged it

and i've got nothing.

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day 29  -- a post about sucking and wips that aren't anymore.

WTF Wednesday

so a couple of weeks ago, i started another pair of socks.  green ones, for project spectrum. 

the yarn is Opal Rainforest in Chameleon. so i knit one sock.  put it aside, and started the next one, confident that the second one would match if i started the cuff at the same color repeat.  because opal is a machine dyed yarn and  all that.   and sure enough.  see how the stripes match up?  i'm not normally OCD about striping, being ok with wearing fraternally twinned socks, but this matching made me happy.

la la la.  i'm knitting along ... look how the heels match!  excellent.

and then something weird happened.

WTF!!!  see that aqua colored stripe?  (and yes, i counted and recounted stitches).

my matchy socks RUINED!

DON'T GO THINKING THAT I'M NOT OUTRAGED!  see?  i'm even using double negatives!

but clearly not outraged enough to frog and reknit.  stupid aqua stripe.

want details?  i've raveled them. 

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day 21  -- foiled by a ball of german sock yarn.

WIP Wednesday

i've been having internet problems all evening so i'm getting this in before my connection disappears again.  just a couple of things that i've been working on.

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day 14 -- almost didn't happen.

WIP Wednesday

starting today i'm going to have a regular wednesday feature called WIP Wednesday where i'll post about a project that i'm working on that week.  this may degenerate to WTF Wednesday or Whatever the Hell I Want Wednesday but today i plan on playing it straight. 

a few days ago i started another version of my gathered scarf.  this one is for me and knit from berroco ultra alpaca in pea soup.  this time, because the yarn is thicker than the yarn used for the original, i only cast on 40 stitches on size 8 needles (going down to size 5 for the garter stitch sections). 

by the way, it's been so cool for me to see all of the different variations of this scarf knit by so many people.  who knew that you all would like it so much.  not me anyway.

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day 7 -- here's to more WIPs than WTFs.