Skill - Day2 2KCBWDAY2

 

 

What have I learned in the last year?  Gosh, so much.  I'm always learning new skills.  Every time I design something, I also learn something.  If I'm not doing something new, then I get bored, and I like each garment I knit to have some sort of challenge for me.  Keeps the gray matter working.

I love designing.  I love finding a yarn I've dyed, and then turning that bit of string into something pretty or elegant or practical.  I've been on a shawl binge for more than a year, and I'm still learning and trying things out.  

Here are some pics of stuff I've designed.  I have 2 designs that are mysteries because they are for the Light and Dark Lace club, but I can tell you that I learned more than a minimal amount with them.

Here's what I am working on:  actually writing up the design.  I really hate writing it all up, but it's just gotta get done.  So with a lot of cursing, I plod away on it.  Why is it so easy to design and such a pain in the tush to write it up?

CraftyCripple - You hit the nail on the head.  That is exactly the issue.  Two different uses of the brain.  It's a real challenge! 

Sarah - That's the first shawl for a Lace club I'm doing with Roxanne of ZenYarn Garden.  The challenge on that one was to go from the bottom to the top without running out of yarn.  I did it, too!

knitabulous - It would cost a fortune to outsource it, and anyhow, only I can read my notes and charts!

Kasia & scrapperjen - Thank you. 

Kepanie - Hard work!  I often design on the needle as I go along.  I work up graphs and try them out.  I frog a lot.