In my experience, it seems that many things look worse when they're in a photo. The cluttered background suddenly becomes the focal point, zits glow like beacons for passing ships and cat fur blankets every inch of every piece of fabric in sight. So when I saw this picture, I was almost convinced I could knit. And you might be convinced as well.
But that would only be because you can't see the real thing.
The only successful part of my sad attempt at Shimelle's Friday project was that I finished it. Which for me could be considered pretty huge.
Anyway, it was supposed to be a cup sleeve for a takeout coffee but I couldn't be bothered to find the suggested (or even a similar) yarn so I used something I pulled from the bottom of my yarn bin as well as the needles that were sitting near a recently completed project
and those were not necessarily good choices.
Even though I greatly reduced the number of stitches, the thing would still fit around a football better than a paper coffee cup. It does fit nicely around my ceramic cup - I'm guessing though that it might be a bit difficult to wash the cup since the sleeve had to be sewn on in order for it to fit through the cup handle. It was just for the photo... really.
Could you guess that the purple bat masquerading as a butterfly was supposed to be a heart? Yeah, me neither.
Finding the positive:
- I've finished two of four projects from the site.
- One of them is nice.
- Today is National Scrapbook Day and if I ever get to bed and sleep for a bit, I plan to spend some time scrapping when I get up!
- Oh! And I think I've learned a lesson - If I feel the need to take up some yarn, I'll stick to crochet.
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