…or, “when you’re a monogamous knitter and can’t bring yourself to knit anything else, even when you’re tired” – that could be the alternative title, it just slides out the tongue, doesn’t it?…
I am the sort of weird person who can’t stand multiple unfinished projects, I’ll definitely forget they exist if I don’t give them my full attention until completion. Sadly, this means I am stuck with a knitting project that challenges the brain even when said brain is clearly too tired to work on it. I’ve been very busy lately but also very stubborn and insisting I can knit something complicated even when I can hardly keep my eyes open.
Clearly this is headed for success!
Let’s backtrack: I got obsessed with a colourwork jumper I saw on Ravelry a while ago called Side Eye. To my eyes it is magnificent and just the sort of thing my wardrobe is wanting. I had some precious baby Yak yarn that would be perfect for it.
Of course, I apparently also crave chaos, because the version I really wanted to knit was one that had some colour changes. I wanted the same version as a Ravelry user called Viorelknits had made. Their version took my breath away and I needed one just like it.
To the unconfounded mind, this version might seem like a simple question of creating a couple of extra rounds in the knitting to switch colours and Bob’s my uncle. To my very confounded mind though, this was a bit of a nightmare. My tired braincells just refused to compute the change. Did this mean I rested and came back later? No, this meant lots of swearing and persisting!
I have so far managed to knit the bottom successfully, but had trouble interpreting the changes Viorelknits made to their version to make the colour change possible in the section shown on the needles above. This means the beginning of my ram’s head doesn’t look as neat, and now there’s a possibility I might have to frog part of the top bit – can you imagine how much work it’ll be undoing colourwork?
So, wish me luck and keep me accountable, let’s see if my next blog post features a finished jumper, or whether I have instead gone into hiding and hate all yarn until infinity.
See you next time 🙂