There are times when project just isn’t working out. It’s the yarn or the hook size or the pattern. Something just isn’t making the project pleasurable. Since the majority of the items I give away, I like to be able to feel good about what I am making and happy about it as I am making it. When I am feeling negative or angry when I am working on a project that negativity is not a good environment for the craft. Thursday night, I looked at a languishing project that has been around too long with too little progress because the stitch pattern and the yarn were not complimentary.
With approximately 17 inches of an afghan completed, I put it aside. (Not a lot considering most afghans are approximately 70 inches.) I took out a different hook and started again. After making a new foundation chain, and single crochet row, a false start of a couple of inches, while watching a schlocky mutated animal sci-fi movie, I got into the groove of a new pattern with the same yarn and I like it. The newly created material drapes better and the colors work together better with this pattern and the smaller hook size will make it warmer, even though it’s more like a thermal blanket with many holes in it.
People who have seen me rip something apart because I don’t like it and begin again, think I’m crazy, especially if they can’t see anything wrong with the item. It more of “I” want to be satisfied with the item that I am making and gifting. Now with the new design, I am happy and this one will be completed. I will get around to unraveling the first 17 inches out and use it later.
