I have mentioned a few times now the absence of my knitting mojo and the existence of a knitting funk. I have tried to solve this with multiple attempts at casting on. Something exciting; something easy; something small. Nothing has worked.
This is the story of my attempt to cure my knitting funk by casting on something easy. I chose this multidirectional scarf pattern. It was cute, I could use a ball of Zauberball. I like Zauberball. It is nice yarn and, most importantly for the mood I was in at the time, it was already in a ball. No winding involved! Easy pattern, effective and cute, let's go!
Of course, however, it did not work. It did not work because I messed up the pattern. I got this very nice ridge all along the decrease line. Which was problematic because going back in the other direction the very nice ridge was appearing on the other side of the knitting, and so was not very nice anymore. I was slipping the stitch, I think, when I should not have been.
I made an attempt at using different decreases to get the same ridge effect on the same side, but was not remotely happy with how it looked, and so I have decided to rip it out. I may or may not knit this again (correctly, hopefully!) but it will not be with this yarn. I think something with shorter colour repeats would be more effective, and in the meantime my knitting funk remains uncured.
If anyone reading this has thoughts on a cure, I would be very grateful to hear it!
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