Fight with Knitting

Knitting and I have been in fight. Now before you get too worried, I’ll let you know we’ve made up and we are ready to continue this relationship. Neither of us have changed, we’ve just come to some understandings about each other. Why a fight you ask? It’s not fair. I knew when I started this that obviously I would be buying yarn all the time, but I had no idea that I would constantly be buying kneedles. I really thought that I could buy one straight kneedle, one circular kneedle and a set of double pointed and I’d be set. So naïve. So uninformed. Instead, it seems that each project requires a kneedle purchase. That’s not true-I knitted my first two scarves on the same 6.0 bamboo kneedles. But I had left over yarn and I thought this would be a great opportunity to learn about circular kneedles and make a lovely, warm brown hat.

I thought knitting on circular kneedles would be a good lead in to knitting on double pointed kneedles. I went to craft store part of Pearl which is hidden behind and across the street from Pearl Paint and hunted through the yarn looking for kneedles. Defeated I went to the front and asked for them. Even as the words came out of my mouth, I foolishly realized that the knitting kneedles were behind the counter and, now, right in front of me. Apparently old ladies like to steal them and use them as weapons. I guess the woman at the counter doesn’t knit because when I asked for size 6 circular kneedles she didn’t look at me funny, didn’t ask any other questions, just handed me a pair. Little did I know that the 29” circulars I received would never make a hat for my normal human sized head. When I found out that "Because the circumference of the piece being knit must be at least 2 inches (5.08 cm) larger than the length of circular needles[sic], this will determine when to choose each needle type," I was thoroughly disheartened. Not only am I constantly in need of kneedles, but now I had bought two for one project. I don’t even know what I can eventually use these for. Of course it took awhile for me to figure this out and that’s when knitting and I got into a fight.

I’ll skip the pouting and feet stamping and go right to the reconciliation. I decided to forgo the hat for now and move right along to the fingerless gloves that I coveted and also promised to my friends who are waiting patiently. I found this great online yarn store, Yarn and Fiber. They had all the Debbie Bliss yarn I could want for 75 cents cheaper a skein than Seaport Yarn and they gave me free delivery. I don’t know if this was some sort of one time ploy to get me hooked or an all the time thing, but I’ll let you know when I find out. I figured that ordering online would give me and knitting some time to cool off.

This was not true.

This place has the fastest response time and delivery of any type of store I’ve ever encountered on the web. I ordered at 10:50. At 10:52 I received an email telling me that they had received the order. At 11:04, I received an email telling me that my order had been put together and shipped! Three days later I had yarn. Crazy fast. I got the kneedles from Knit Picks along with some materials for Sheldon. And then I was ready. Well not mentally, but materially.