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in which our hero (me, that is) decides to be a grown up

My last knitting update included a picture of a project for my swap partner. It doesn't look like that anymore.

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Before I ripped it all out, I don't think there was a row that satisfied me. Things weren't lining up just so. I'd tinked more than I care to admit. But rather than just give it up as a bad start in which Things Were Learned, I just kept trying to make it work. It won't work, as is, at least not as a gift to someone else, especially a someone else that I'd knitted the same set of rows twice. And so I did what needed to be done.

Fortunately, I have time -- it needs to be in the mail by June 20 -- to knit forward with courage and conviction. That first run was just for practice.

Comments

Good for you! Sometimes the hardest thing to admit (in life, business, relationships, etc.) is that something just . . . ISN'T . . . working.

Also, "grown-up" is one of my favorite words.

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