Hermione’s Successful Scarf and Lucy’s Failed Top
Knitting update! Here is the Fairisle top that featured in the last post –
I had finished it, bar the ribbing around the neck. I looked at it. I thought, meh, I’m not sure I’ll wear that. Towards the end I came up with so many better colour combinations for the patterns, I regretted my earlier work. At the same time, I was on a lateshift watching multiple episodes of Foyles War on the tiny office telly, with its talk of butter rations and mending and making do, and I am in no position, and nor it is not right, to waste. Yarn doesn’t grow on trees.
So I unraveled it all, and that pile of strands above was rolled back up into balls. Meanwhile, I found a half-finished scarf in a bag-for-life in the hall cupboard that I started back when cold weather was an actual thing, so got I that finished. It’s based on Hermione Granger’s scarf, and another free Ravelry pattern. And I’m properly chuffed with it. Harry Potter films (mainly thanks to Molly Weasley) are great from a knitwear point of view.
And here’s my attempt at it. It’s knitted in the round so all the threads are hidden, and it will be super-warm.
So, back to the tank top, which I hope will be better the second time around, and will also burn some nervous energy and take my mind off the interview I have this Friday for a job with a real permanent contract that I really want, but then so do a lot of people. Arrgghh!!!
Lucy
Sarah
I am totally in awe of your and Sarah’s knitting skills.
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Thanks, Sarah has all the skills, whereas I have enthusiasm which is not quite matched by ability, but maybe one day 😉
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I wouldn’t even dare!
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So impressed with the scarf! I hope you end up with a tank top to make Foyle himself green with envy.
Excellent gif work by the way, I really enjoyed these!
Massive, massive, huge good luck for your job interview! Let us know how it goes 🙂
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Thank you 🙂 And if there’s a better way to jazz up a slightly thin post than gif parade I’ve yet to find it 😀
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You’ve seen my blog – preaching to the choir 😀
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You’ve done exactly the right thing with the tank top. I feel your pain with the frogging, but equally there is no point continuing with something you don’t absolutely love. And all the very best of luck for your interview – what’s for you won’t go by you, as they say up here in Scotland. 🤞🏻
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I’ve never heard the word frogging, I wondered if it was because unraveled yarn looks curly and crimped like frogging on an officer’s jacket but google tells me it’s a ‘rip-it, rip-it’ thing which sounds far more fun 😉 And thanks, fingers crossed!
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I am *so* impressed with your knitting (and I loved the gif!) Good luck with the interview!
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Thank you on both counts, fingers crossed! Although Sarah’s knitting is so much better than mine, and less likely to get forgotten about in hall cupboards 😉
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Massive respect for your swift frogging of the tank top. I usually have to wait months – years, even – before unraveling my regretted efforts, long enough that the memory of all that work has faded enough for me not to cry! I absolutely love that scarf – you’ve inspired me, I need to get a new knitting project on the go.
Good luck on the interview – in weird synchronicity, I’ve just been made permanent at the hostel. Finally, I can breathe out!
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Congrats!! Oh that’s so good. At the interview they spoke about a larger post that could be available which would mean no more shift-hunting at all, as even with the new job I’d want to find some extra hours a month, but it’s not a guaranteed permanent post. I felt like I was on a game show deciding whether to gamble! I said if I got it I’d prefer the smaller 30 hour permanent, anything that makes it harder for the council to get rid of me! Fingers crossed!
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The scarf looks perfect!
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Thank you, it’s not often I see time-consuming projects through to the end so I’m rather happy with it 🙂
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