When I got back into knitting this was the first project that I dove into. What was I thinking? I musta been nuts. OK. I am still nuts. But it was Lotsa Colors Close Together which (I may have mentioned this previously) I am wild about.I bought the yarn at Houston's International Quilt Festival (why not?) and began this project with abandon, which is another way of saying, I neglected to read the instructions. I got overwhelmed in no time and put the whole thing away.
Later the following year, I learned the correct method to produce this type of modular knitting and then looked at my false start and decided to unravel it all.
That didn't work either, because one inch knitted squares result in very short lengths of yarn.
O my. What a mess and what a waste of expensive yarn. I packed it all away again.
Then in my big clean out and get rid of junk day I looked again at this project and decided to cut my losses and make pillows. I still have lots of yarn left from this kit, and will work it into something new, and correctly knit.
Have you seen this?
ReplyDeleteLizard Ridge Afghan at Knitty:
http://www.knitty.com/ISSUEfall06/PATTlizardridge.html
It might be a good new project for your Koigu.
I was so tempted to buy this pattern and yarn last year at Houston but luckily they had sold out - good thing by the sound of it!
ReplyDeleteSo, can I borrow the pattern?
ReplyDeleteI probably won't actually knit it, but I'm thinking about it. Which is as far as I usually get.
Robbi
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