14 August 2013

patience

I've been thinking about patience and knitting, and I truly believe that knitting has made me so more patient.

When I started knitting, I never thought I'd be the type of person with the patience to quietly un-knit hundreds of stitches to remedy an error made rows earlier.  And yet, with this piece, that's what I've done.  It's the most challenging pattern I've attempted to date, I think it's looking beautiful, and I've found myself at peace fixing mistakes, of which there have been many.  It's very zen.



Since I last shared this, I re-started it on smaller needles, and it looks so much better than that hot mess.  I have knit two and a half repeats of the seven required repeats of the basket weave.  I always think that knitting is such a slow process, but I know if I just work on this a bit more consistently I will see results.  Watch this space.

~Tan

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10 comments:

  1. wow this is really stunning, I love the pattern with the colour you've chosen - it really brings it out. Have a knitty Wednesday xx

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  2. its hard to live with mistakes, so you did the right thing, its going to be beautiful

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  3. Wow, it looks incredible! I love that yarn, it looks beautiful! ^__^

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  4. It looks amazing!! Beautiful pattern and the colour is just perfect.

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  5. This is beautiful, such lovely work!

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  6. The pattern looks amazing in this color.

    Here's my WIP: http://mibruno.com/en-proceso-101/

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  7. Perfect compliment of pattern and yarn. Gorgeous knitting.

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  8. It's really looking beautiful already and I love the life lessons you've learned and shared with us.

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  9. It looks lovely at a tighter gauge. Pretty colour!

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