Now I feel ten feet tall
Well, wow. You guys really know how to make a girl feel better. A bit embarrassed too - next time I feel like deleting my blog I'll just keep it to myself without making such a fuss about it. But seriously: thank you so much for your wonderful, encouraging words. I am humbled and thankful, and so not worthy. (I'm still gonna print out all the comments, laminate them and carry them with me all the time. Ahem.)
One more thing about perfectionism: doesn't it suck that it usually does not extend to all parts of your life? Like, I feel perfectly fine not vacuuming under the carpets.
Let's talk some yarn for a change!
I started a new pair of socks (the pattern is Conwy from Nancy Bush's Knitting on the Road). I wanted to try out the other Knittery yarn I had in my stash, since I liked the merino one so much. Oh, I guess I didn't tell you that in my last post: I really, really liked the yarn I used for the Gentleman's Shooting Stockings. It's a bit thinner than your average sock yarn, resulting socks wonderfully light and comfy. It's discontinued, but the new Merino Slim Sock has approximately the same yardage, and I'm seriously tempted to try that one next. The Merino Chubby Sock sounds very yummy too...
The yarn I'm using for these socks is 4Ply Sock: Merino Cashmere, in shade Midnight. I was browsing Ravelry to see what other people have said about this yarn, and mostly all just said how wonderful and soft this yarn is. It is - but I'm not sure I like knitting with it. The yarn is so soft that it feels somehow sticky on the needles, and it's also quite a bit heavier than the other sock yarns I've knit with.
Part of my problem with this yarn could be the colour. I bought this yarn to knit socks for someone very special, and although I'm sure she'll love this colourway, the dusky pinks and lilacs are so not my cup of tea, and make me feel like I'm knitting someone else's project. I do think that these will be very warm and amazingly soft and luxurious socks when finished, so I'll keep knitting. Maybe – and here's a depressing thought – I'm just not a cashmere kinda girl?
Part of my problem with this yarn could be the colour. I bought this yarn to knit socks for someone very special, and although I'm sure she'll love this colourway, the dusky pinks and lilacs are so not my cup of tea, and make me feel like I'm knitting someone else's project. I do think that these will be very warm and amazingly soft and luxurious socks when finished, so I'll keep knitting. Maybe – and here's a depressing thought – I'm just not a cashmere kinda girl?
posted by Terhi @ 11:10 ap.
22 Comments:
Wow! I'll pretend you didn't say that about cashmere...let's assume it's the color more than anything else. :)
The sock itself is lovely, nice work. I'm glad that the comments made you feel better, they were all true too, so feel free to laminate them! :)
I was just going to post a comment about deleting your blog when I saw that you had posted again....
It's not the cashmere, it's the color. I'm sure of it. There's no way anyone could dislike cashmere, I refuse to even entertain the thought.
Maybe you're not a cashmere girl. Maybe you're silk, all the way. :-) Maybe you need metal DPNs for that yarn?
PS - I'm glad you're not deleting, too. It's so fantastic to see what people all over the world are working on. Sometimes I see new patterns I'd never have found otherwise, sometimes they're familiar patterns and I get enjoyment out of that little link to someone far away.
Maybe you're just not a cashmere sock kind of girl? There is, after all, a time and a place for (almost) everything. ;)
Terhi! I missed the post about deleting the blog. You can do no such thing! I have a ton of stupid old posts (and some stupid new ones). I just don't torture myself by reading them. :) Sometimes a break is in order. I often leave my blog behind for months just so I don't have to listen to my own drivel. Or I just post photos, which is nice because then I can still look back and remember what I was doing and feeling then. A blog is like a diary of knitting that sucks other little bits of your life into it. Whether you are able to appreciate it now or not, it will be meaningful to you someday in the future. Take a break if you need to, but don't delete! We would all be devastated to lose your voice.
xox, J.
P.S. I know what you mean about knitting outside of your color preferences. I think maybe you just need to use metal DPNs to get over the feel of the yarn. It's worth a try!
I'm glad you're not going to delete the blog!
The socks are pretty but I know what you mean about knitting with colors that just aren't you.
1. surely there is no dust under carpets?
2. i loved my knittery merino cashmere and i knit it on aluminium needles, i think. it does pill a little, unfortunately, but i've worn my socks lots and otherwise they are holding up great.
3. please don't stop blogging, i would have to move to finland to be able to check in with you!
I didn't even see you posted about your shooting stockings! They are probably one of my favorites that you've knit & are totally on my list. Seems like we have simular sock tastes! LOL :D
I think it's totally the color. I usually don't knit for other people unless they don't know. I always choose my colors too or else I never like the project.
i have one pair of cashmere socks, which i adore, though don't wear often because they are definitely *handwash*. BUT, they have outlasted many commercially manufactured socks.
i bought the yarn at a 'stitches' convention (by knitter's magazine XRX), from a vendor called "hunt valley cashmere". i don't know if it was sport or fingering, but the lady then told me it was enough for socks. and i made nancy bush's meida's socks. i love those socks!
soft is nice, but for all the effort, i do prefer sturdy long lasting/long wearing socks.
oh, and those other socks, the finished ones .... i LOVE 'em !!!
Gosh, that yarn is so lovely! I am so gld you are still blogging.
Byääh, aivan ihanat sukat, sys! <3
Well, it is a labour of love - knitting socks for someone else - so the colour-way is perfect. The pattern looks great - I just ordered three of Nancy Bush's books and am eagerly awaiting them as I have some sock yarn yearning to be knit.
Another thing to be grateful for: if you really were ten feet tall you'd need a lot more sock yarn and a custom shoemaker!
Well, I'm not a cashmere girl either, I love wool, just plain wool, not even merino...
And I'm glad that you decided to keep blogging, it's so inspiring and your photos are nice and artistic. Some times even meditative :)
being fortunate enough to live in the same city as where the knittery is located, means i have tried a wide variety of her yarn....and terhi i have to tell you - i'm not a big wrap for the cashmere yarn either even though i definitely am a cashmere girl!. i will say it is nicer to wear than to knit with! i prefer her old merino and you really need to try her new merino slim (and even the chubby which is still thinner than the cashmere)...lush lush lush. let me know if you want some and i'll get it and send it over to you.
Nah.. nothing wrong with not liking cashmere, it saves you the extra money as cashmere can be expensive :-s have you knit with (partly) cashmere yarn before? Also, I think merino can be just as soft as cashmere, and a lot cheaper :P
I knit Conwy in a self-striping yarn, but it looks completely different (and also very pretty! I may have to knit a second pair!) in variegated yarn :)
I read here that the Knittery Slim sock yarn is very thin and not so stretchy, what are your experiences with the discontinued version (that is apparently kind of like the new Slim yarn)?
I also missed your post about deleting your blog. Please do not. So much of what you show here is inspiring. I love your colour choices and the way you use yarn that I would not have thought of. I often go back through your posts seeking ideas and inspiration.
Delete your blog?? Apu! Surely not ...While I bumble along with a single pair of socks you create a wardrobe of stylish footwear and a hat or two .... I marvel at your skill and productivity and get my head down and knit some more. Please don't go. And since you are sitll here, my first ever socks were cashmere, both knitted (or perhaps knotted!) from the same pattern and one at least a size if not two larger than the other ... but I still wear them as my favoured bedsocks and I love every stitch to bits
Don't delete your blog--even if you decide not to post anymore (which you shouldn't! You have such beautiful photographs and interesting writing. I find your blog to be an inspiration!
Terhi I don't know what I would do without your pictures and your wonderful sense of The Right Project. I always get inspired here. I love the light of your country. (Or is it the lack of it?) Give yourself a huge lecture (in my family, for reasons unknown, we call this type of lecture a "mental shampoo") about the value of what you're doing instead of dwelling on the flaws seen only by you.
I do understand you. I can't help feeling that my creations better in a picture than in real life. I will literally be knitting something and think, "This will look cool IN THE PICTURE." I haven't reached a conclusion about what this means about me, but I think it has to do with shallowness? Elevation of image over reality? Not sure I want to think about it.
xo Kay
Thank you all, you're just too kind! :-) And as it turned out, I am a cashmere girl, I just don't enjoy knitting with it. Special thanks for pacalaga for suggesting that I'm silk. I like that, very very much. :-D
zhiven: I liked the discontinued Knittery merino, but it really is quite thin. Still, it was very enjoyable to knit, for me anyways. Because I am a tight knitter, I don't usually like the stretchier yarns.
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