{"id":16625,"date":"2023-01-02T23:22:23","date_gmt":"2023-01-02T22:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=16625"},"modified":"2023-07-24T22:28:07","modified_gmt":"2023-07-24T21:28:07","slug":"daily_2889_-_knitting_decisions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2023\/01\/02\/daily_2889_-_knitting_decisions\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily: 2889 – knitting decisions"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nDone with the cardigan, I need a new knitting project. This will become a shawl.<\/p>\n

It took me four attempts to get this far before I was satisfied.<\/p>\n

The first time I wasn’t happy with the tension. The pattern suggests 3.75 mm needles which may exist in the US but generally aren’t available in Sweden. I tried 4 mm needles, but the result was too loose and floppy.<\/p>\n

The second time I wasn’t happy with the long edge. The pattern suggests an edge treatment that would look good in theory, but in my hands it came out too tight, so the whole long edge pulled in way too strongly.<\/p>\n

The third time I wasn’t happy with the coloured inserts. I tried a green alpaca yarn that looked good in perfect lighting but didn’t stand out enough when seen from a distance. The red works much better.<\/p>\n

A knitting project involves so many choices, and for every one of them I can make the wrong decision. Sometimes it doesn’t matter much but other times I can see pretty clearly that I’m on a route where I won’t be happy with the end result.<\/p>\n

It’s a skill in and of itself, I guess, to notice which decisions matter most, and to spot problems early. The worst knitting decision I made and committed way too strongly to was choosing a pattern that didn’t work for me, with the first green cardigan<\/a>, and that one was so bad that it literally took me years to get past it, because it killed all my joy and confidence. A traumatic knitting experience. But that one was so tangled up with other decisions – about yarn and needles and sizing – that it was hard to pinpoint the actual problem. And who knows, maybe I was doing something wrong that I could have fixed to make it work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Done with the cardigan, I need a new knitting project. This will become a shawl. It took me four attempts to get this far before I was satisfied. The first time I wasn’t happy with the tension. The pattern suggests 3.75 mm needles which may exist in the US but generally aren’t available in Sweden. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[767,18,784,4,768],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crafts-2","category-dailies","category-knitting","category-observing_the_self","category-photography-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16625"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16625\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16626,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16625\/revisions\/16626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}