Real talk:
I hate knitting stockinette. It looks neat and tidy and I really like it, and if it's only a few rows it can be a nice break out of a pattern, but--and even when I'm zoning out and watching tv--it is so. boring to me. It should not be this boring, the whole point of knitting to me (besides ending up with pretty crafted things and holding soft things and pretty colors in my hands) is to have my hands moving, so just knitting and purling should not be this much of a problem for me.
Especially purling. Fuck the long rows of purling.
Two inches to go of straight stockinette in the vest. This may go longer than I'd prefer.
I should probably use this as an opportunity to actually make an intro post. I was planning on waiting until my vest was finished but that may end up taking longer than expected.
So you can call me Dubby, and I'm in my twenties. I graduated college in 2009 and I've been living at home since. I've been knitting on and off since high school but only got really back into knitting once I graduated and made more friends. These friends adopted me and some convinced me to come out to knitting groups or to start new projects with techniques I was unfamiliar with.
The first thing I knit after coming home was the Jayne Hat, after a friend got me the materials. It was my first time knitting in the round and also successfully ribbing (apparently to rib you have to move the yarn forward or back. Who'd thunk!).
I stopped knitting hats after I realized how boring straight stockinette was--hats were bearable even without a pattern because it didn't take too long before there was something to break up the monotony, even if it was just decreasing.
I came back around to stockinette didn't I? I really hate the work of stockinette. It looks really nice, but I haaaaaate doing it. Or extreme dislike. No, no, it's hate. An apathetic hate that makes my attention wander and has me going over to flash games on the internet oops.
Right though so this blog's purpose is, I hope, to help me hone some writing techniques that aren't prose, and also to give me a place to showcase my knitting. Also, if I'm sharing my projects and talking about them maybe I'll feel a little more responsibility to actually finish them. I'd love to talk knitting with fellow tumblr knitters, so feel free to follow or message or even just Like posts. I'm not going to pretend to be a professional knitter, but this is something I love and it's something I want to share. I may one day continue to knit actual items of clothing regularly; this vest is just the start.
If I manage to get past the stockinette.