How many times does it take a self professed knitting nerd to attempt to complete Level 2 of The Knitting Guild Association Master Knitting Program...?
This will be attempt #4...discouragement, overwhelming perfection and the loss of the joy of knitting have all contributed to my giving up. Yah. I am not proud of that.
Just being honest.
But I pride myself in not giving up...not being a quitter and not looking at the impossible and saying "It can't be done. I can't do it."
Obviously.
Others have completed Level 2 and have lived to tell the tale.
Sometimes the motivation factor wanes. Sometimes the motivation for me is in the finished process not the actual KNITTED PRODUCT. Each project I have ever knit, has taught me something. The Basics, Basics class I did with Arenda and TKGA taught me SO much. I remember finishing the course and thinking, I HAVE ARRIVED.
Ha!
Then I moved onto Level 1 and yes it took a lot to get the swatches done, the projects but I learned with each step and again that triumphant, I ARRIVED ONCE AGAIN.
Enter Level 2...oh Fair Isle bestill my color-filled heart...I rushed through this one and delighted in color and in a colorful wristlet:
Then, to the Intarsia sock. UM. YEAH.
Intarsia.
Not my cup of tea.
Forget the bobbins and the winding the strings to prevent holes.
BUT...timing is everything, right?
I unraveled a sock of my great grandmothers and low and behold, it used Intarsia techniques. Thus began my quest of mastering the strings and holes.
A well timed email from a friend re-lit the quest of this one...
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