Monday 26 February 2007

robbing Peter to pay Paul.

Ok, so I knitted my headscarf in just under 30 hours (yay me!) and what a total disaster it is. The difficulty I had getting the wool should've been a predictor. Actually when I got to about half way and it seemed about the size I wanted, that probably should've tipped me off. But no, I though, the pattern knows what it's doing. OH NO IT DOESN'T. I really started to wonder when I got to the last couple of rows and I didn't think I'd have enough wool to finish. And I didn't! And I'm a tight little knitter. I had to steal some of the multicoloured bits out of one of my other filatura balls of wool to finish casting off. And the conclusion? This thing is huge. It's like the designer tried to make the biggest randomly shaped thing she could from one ball of wool and then figured out what to use it for. The girl in the picture must have a watermelon up there or something, because I would need to blow up my head like a balloon, plus grow an afro or something for this thing to fit. Seriously. When the front is just above my eyebrows, there is still excess flopping around at the back, and I won't need to sew a button on to secure it, because at this point I can just tie a knot.

I'm thinking I'm going to felt it. It's the only thing I can think of that might resurrect it. That or giving it to the hippie with the dreds down the street. If anyone vehemently objects, you'd better send me a 'hell no!' pretty soon, because at this point, it's going in the washing machine tomorrow after work.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

You could always frog it Emily! Rip-it rip-it rip-it. Start again and make the adjustments where you think so... All that beautiful wool and felting is slightly unpredictable.

m∃ said...

Urgh. Frog it? After 10 hours of knitting out of 30? I think I'd rather risk the unpredictability of felting rather than binding myself into starting *all over again*. It will be a shame if it dies, but...

Molly said...

No no no!!! Don't destroy it! Gift it on Em! :-P

Margie said...

My advice is never trust hat patterns from Knitty. The hat i knat for my dad was also for a watermelon head.

Trust the emily, emily! :)