I bought some new yarn.

Oh, and my loom came, no big deal.

EXCEPT IT IS A HUGE DEAL!!

It is possible this scarf is cursed.

I spent several hours untangling the yarn barf. Probably a total of 5 or 6. I was untangling until my eyes crossed and I had a crick in my neck.

My strategy was to wind the yarn from both sides so when one set of knots got to be too annoying I could switch over and work on the other side. Then, suddenly, the two balls were attached to each other and no longer tangled and there was still a mess of tangled yarn in front of me.

Mistakes have been made. That’s all there is to it.

First I ripped back the Halloween scarf thinking that I could make it look better with my newfound knowledge of how SSKs are supposed to be knit.

There are no SSKs in that pattern.

I’ve been knitting for around 9 years. According to my Ravelry profile, I signed up in 2011 but I state that I started knitting in 2012…so who even knows. In that time, I’ve learned a lot of stitches. I’m pretty loyal to my decreases though, SSK & knit 2 together, unless something else is called for that’s what I always do. Always.

Turns out I’ve been doing my SSKs wrong THIS WHOLE TIME.

I think I have a case of startitis.

And by 'think' I mean I absolutely do.

For the past few years, I’ve had the occasional thought that I’d like to try writing a knitting pattern. I am a person of many anxieties though, so I’ve never actually tried to do it.

One of my many, many problems is that I tend to get ahead of myself. Rather than dealing with step 1 of trying to design something (you know, actually coming up with a design), I start worrying about step 978 and then don’t even attempt step 1. A quick look at how my brain works…

I’ve noticed that the last few blog posts have had a lot of pictures of very gray yarn and that, my friends, just won’t do.

2020 is gray enough in attitude, I don’t need it in my yarn as well.

Am I using this as an excuse to start a new project? Maybe.

Way back in the year of our lord, 2011, I bought a brand new Nissan Versa. I had become friends with this fellow up in Canada and we had talked about me coming to visit. In order to make such a trek, I’d need a reliable vehicle. While I was working at a job I hated, I was making decent money (for me) so I splurged on a fancy new car.

Things have been rough here at casa de Stitching Geek. Along with everything else crappy going on in the world, there has also been some personal stuff going on which has been making it hard to do much of anything. Usually, in stressful situations, I try to match my knitting to the level of stress. If things are really tough, I do something hard. I think I stole it from the Yarn Harlot but right now, I can’t even focus on a TV show, let alone a complex knitting project.

Today I have a finished object to share with y’all.

This is the ‘V Scarf’ by Tinyant Designs. You can find it on their website or on Ravelry.

I have made this scarf …

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