I like it! Now Change Everything

Why is it when I find a pattern I like I automatically want to change something to it? I am never happy with it from cast on to bind off 100%. There is usually something I just HAVE to do it to change, it, alter it, make it mine or something to it.


Of course there is the obvious, for me, the yarn thing. I rarely find a pattern I like that is written in a yarn I can actually use. So, right off the bat I have to change that. I am getting very good at the gauge thing. Believe it or not, I am a rare swatch doer since I am not much of a clothing knitter per se and I am one of those knitters you love to hate since I get lucky in this area. Don't get me wrong, I have had a few whoppers of mistakes that have ended up as doll blankets but thankfully they were done in cheap yarn. There have been rare occasions when I can use the yarn the pattern calls for and there are times when even though i can use the yarn in the pattern I STILL want to change it.


Then there is the cast on. I am not much for the picot cast on so if I can avoid it, I do. It is cute for babies so I have do it a few times but, it is definitely not a favorite and it is annoying.


Next I might sit with 2-4 hat patterns and combine them. Or I might not like the increase or decrease a pattern calls for so I'll change it. Upping the needle size is one of my favorite things to do too.


Lets not forget working without a net at all (no pattern and making it up as we go along). That has set a few things to the frog pond when I forget what I was doing but this is usually when I am doing a wash cloth so it is a same project to begin with anyway. I need to start writing things down more.


I couldn't even do that two rectangle baby poncho like the pattern calls for. Which, by the way, here it is. i decided not to add the flower brooch, it would have been too much

Oh I know. I am 95% process, 5% product. If I had my way, All of my needles would have some project on them and I have a lot of needles. Then I'd go stir crazy and no project would ever finish.

One of these days I will surprise myself. I will find a pattern I love in a yarn I love and knit the piece from cast on to bind off with out changing a single stitch and be in love with the entire thing.