I guess it's a bit like life in general. Sometimes you have to put aside the fun for a month to get the job done when things get sticky. Sometimes you throw in the towel decide to have a few days for you, even if the time and money could be spent better, you can splurge a little. Well sometimes, you just have to put the big project on the back burner until things slow down.
From planning 3 blankets, to my first full size non cheating with big gauge sweater, oh, did I run out of fuel, let me tell you. I was thinking that maybe I'd never be a fast knitter again, just like I only have time for stupid fast reads anymore. But that's wrong on both subjects and it's time to knit unburdened with the FFF Fallback. Really Fun, really Functional, really Fast.
I decided to whip out a quick swiffer sweeper cover because the refills are expensive and we're trying to cut back (and I was out and really want to scrub without getting on my hands and knees). I realized while knitting it that just because it's Full of the FFF's doesn't mean it has to be shoddy or overly simple. I discovered knitted quilting. A super easy complicated looking stitch. It was all of the best things in knitting put into one, all of the Finest F's.
Totally Fun because it left me feeling a bit of accomplishment for whipping out such a nice looking non canon stitch even though it was super easy, and that with the perfect color choices looks rather too nice for a cleaning tool.
Completely Functional, because it can go in the washing machine and the dryer, it's tailor, and scrubs way better than anything swiffer puts out saving me a BUTT load of cash.
And so Fast that I started it and finished during one lazy night in watching a movie, quick fix dinner, and a few DVR's with my main squeeze without being so distracted that I didn't get to interact with him at all.
But when I finished the swiffer cover . . . and then I finished another one, I didn't want to get sucked into the knitter's monotonous repetition spiral. So I looked around for another similar stitch and came up with a renaissance faire pouch that I'm really stoked about. Just enough adornment that it could be considered "embellished" but not too much that it was as hard to make as it looks. And also, fun and playful at the same time. Meaning that I'm going to have to do another one with way less mellow colors and aim for Jester.
I'm so excited about them that the only thing I've been fretting about (cus knitting stuff you're excited about is a serious stress reliever) is where the hell my camera cord is so I can finally load some pictures of it onto Ravelry.
Enough FFF for the whole summer because I've decided I need 7 swiffer covers (one for each day of the week) and I need to churn out more of the bags to start off the online store with Jackie. I haven't even been able to tell her the idea for the bag yet so she can make a crochet version and it's almost done.
