Recs, knitting
May. 16th, 2005 07:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thebratqueenNumb3rs fans should check out < 3. It's a nice little piece where the special Hell aspects of it are handled with a darn near perfect touch. Go read. I'll be here babbling in the meanwhile.
In knitting news: WANT. Oh how I want. My mouth has completely filled with drool. Eek!
You know it's funny, but a conversation in email made me pick up SnB and SNBN (the latter of which I have from the library) and reread the patterns as though I hadn't seen them before. Turns out patterns I had remembered in my mind as "I can't do this." were mentally marked as such because I didn't have the needles to do them. So on the first read through I tried to restrict myself to patterns that would only require a yarn purchase, because I was testing the idea of knitting out. Now that I'm past the testing phase and now that I have my interchangable needles, there's a whole host of stuff I can try! It's very exciting.
What's interesting to me as well is the concept of changing patterns. Granted I'm just a n00b who hasn't attempted anything truly difficult yet, but on paper it looks like so much of knitting - or at least working with patterns - is a little bit puzzle solving and a little bit math. What do I love? Puzzle solving and math. Why didn't you people tell me about this sooner?
Anyway, I now have my eye on trying to make actual garments. I figure I'll start off with doing a garment as-is in the pattern just so I can get a feel for it (esp since I haven't done anything yet which requires sewing pieces together) and if that goes well I figure the sky's the limit.
That and my budget.
In knitting news: WANT. Oh how I want. My mouth has completely filled with drool. Eek!
You know it's funny, but a conversation in email made me pick up SnB and SNBN (the latter of which I have from the library) and reread the patterns as though I hadn't seen them before. Turns out patterns I had remembered in my mind as "I can't do this." were mentally marked as such because I didn't have the needles to do them. So on the first read through I tried to restrict myself to patterns that would only require a yarn purchase, because I was testing the idea of knitting out. Now that I'm past the testing phase and now that I have my interchangable needles, there's a whole host of stuff I can try! It's very exciting.
What's interesting to me as well is the concept of changing patterns. Granted I'm just a n00b who hasn't attempted anything truly difficult yet, but on paper it looks like so much of knitting - or at least working with patterns - is a little bit puzzle solving and a little bit math. What do I love? Puzzle solving and math. Why didn't you people tell me about this sooner?
Anyway, I now have my eye on trying to make actual garments. I figure I'll start off with doing a garment as-is in the pattern just so I can get a feel for it (esp since I haven't done anything yet which requires sewing pieces together) and if that goes well I figure the sky's the limit.
That and my budget.
