The thing about works in progress is that they look pretty awful until they're done.
No wonder non-knitters think what we spend hours and hours thinking about, working on, hoarding for and discussing, is bunk. I mean, what else could they think when all they see us knit are a bunch of blobs?
Like this thing. This, I am hoping, will become a nifty little vest. One with something along the lines of pin-tucking or whatever it is they call those hand sewn stitches I used to see along the lapels of men's suits. Of course, I'm not sure that this vest to be will be a true success or not. After all, it is still a work in progress, or a "UFO" as knitters call it.
No wonder the non-knitters think we're nuts.
Most things look a little nutty from the outside("extreme" sports, modern art, and statistics come to mind). I think it's a little nutty to go through a whole day without fondling a little yarn.
Posted by: Laura | January 08, 2009 at 03:23 PM
How would anyone manage to think themselves normal if they couldn't think someone else nuts?
Love that yarn!
Posted by: Dorothy | January 08, 2009 at 03:43 PM
Oooooooooooooooh!!! This better not be The Vest I've Been Searching For! You really do have a way of reading my mind (scary) and coming out with WAY better patterns than I've previously been able to find. That would mean I'll have to frog the one I've been working on for the last week, and Hubband will think I'm fer sure crazy (it really freaks him out when I frog. Sometimes I do it just to amuse myself.)
Posted by: MonkeyGurrl | January 08, 2009 at 04:37 PM
Oooooooooooooooh!!! This better not be The Vest I've Been Searching For! You really do have a way of reading my mind (scary) and coming out with WAY better patterns than I've previously been able to find. That would mean I'll have to frog the one I've been working on for the last week, and Hubband will think I'm fer sure crazy (it really freaks him out when I frog. Sometimes I do it just to amuse myself.)
Posted by: MonkeyGurrl | January 08, 2009 at 04:37 PM
{{Sorry about the double-comment. I think I got too excited. Made a little mess over here, too.}}
Posted by: MonkeyGurrl | January 08, 2009 at 04:38 PM
I think you might mean topstitching on lapels. I've never seen pintucks on lapels, pintucks are sort of channels in the fabric made by little folds.
Posted by: Lisette | January 08, 2009 at 05:35 PM
"No wonder non-knitters think what we spend hours and hours thinking about, working on, hoarding for and discussing, is bunk."
Never thought about it that way. You may have something there (besides a partially done vest-lovely colors btw).
Posted by: Beadknitter | January 08, 2009 at 05:46 PM
That is what I mean (although I have a cotton quilt on my bed that was labeled as pin-tucked...it looks a lot like the effect in the picture).
Posted by: Wendy | January 08, 2009 at 05:52 PM
Can't wait to see it finished!
Posted by: Renee | January 08, 2009 at 06:30 PM
oh oh I'm sure it will be wonderful!!! Can't wait to see it! Nutts yes im that and crazy and out of my Tree, ect ect ect so what? LOL Marion
Posted by: Marion | January 08, 2009 at 07:15 PM
Ooo, I think I recognize that yarn! Are you going to TNNA? I'll be there! Let's HANG OUT!!!! Sorry I missed you in Cali, things got VERY busy....
Posted by: Mary-Kay Tilden | January 08, 2009 at 07:47 PM
Funny, I've always associated UFOs as being unfinished works not currently in progress (i.e. put down and forgotten or put down and weighing on one's conscience but not enough to tempt one away from the current WIPs).
Posted by: Ricky | January 08, 2009 at 11:20 PM
Nah. I was using "UFOs" and "WIPs" when I was cranking out quilts, long before I was a knitter, too. And quilters are thought goofy for cutting apart perfectly good pieces of cloth just to sew the patches back together again.
Posted by: Jen in KS | January 09, 2009 at 04:54 AM
To be fair, we are kind of nuts!
Posted by: Brandy | January 09, 2009 at 07:51 AM
Oh. So. Happy.
Posted by: Cassie | January 09, 2009 at 07:56 AM
Sometimes I think that all I'm knitting is a blob...keep pulling and tugging to see if it's turning out the way I imagine in my head, not always the case!!
Posted by: Claire | January 09, 2009 at 12:59 PM
the stitching would actually be called picking and it's purpose is solely to add some interest!
Posted by: Liz | January 09, 2009 at 07:39 PM
I am new to knitting but it has ALWAYS been something I wanted to get into. I never thought anyone would think it was weird... Then my boyfriends family came along. I am teaching my boyfriends mom to crochet, so I didn't think it would be odd to bring my knitting with me to work on while she was mastering some new skills. But his WHOLE family gathered around me to watch and ask questions like, "how does it become something?" "how do you know where you are?" "how are you making something without a pattern?" "so it's essentially a series of knots that string together and make something?"
I swear it was the weirdest thing they'd ever seen. I never anticipated that it could be construed as "weird" until that moment in time.
Posted by: Laura | January 10, 2009 at 05:59 AM
What, may I ask, is that beautiful blackberry-y yarn? I want it!!
Posted by: bird | January 15, 2009 at 07:43 PM
It is from Red Rock Fiber Works: http://www.redrocksfiberworks.com/
Posted by: Wendy | January 15, 2009 at 07:55 PM
not sure if you meant to do it or not, but the color of that green (is it waste yarn?) with the project color is AMAZING :) -
Posted by: Kyle Kunnecke | January 16, 2009 at 12:41 PM