Here’s a Cap’t Rant

It’s been a bit over a week.  I have spent this time puzzling over a pattern that I am designing for the Fingerless Glove Fanatic group over at Ravelry. I can not express enough how in awe this cap’t is of those crafty types that do this for a living. It is amazingly difficult and simple at the same time.

So, I decided to use fingering to dk weight yarn. Then I realized that I didn’t have dk weight yarn in my stash so I took myself off to the nearest Joann’s (The Keeper of the Coin said we had to keep an eye on the spending so I used one of those nifty little pieces of paper that said it wouldn’t cost a lot to buy a ball of yarn, aka a coupon) and picked up a ball of Spa by naturallycaron.com in a shade of purple.

After getting back to the Pearly Hook I began my search for pattern inspiriation.  And wouldn’t you know I found it. So now, inspiriation in hand I begin the tedious task of going through my stitch books for a pattern that will give me the results I am looking for.

Yes, I use stitch patterns from books as guides. It helps me understand what I am doing.

A few days ago I managed to find a stitch pattern that looked like it would suit my needs for the glove pattern. Would you believe that I actually dreamt about working decrease rows into the design for the wrist?   I did. It was really odd. So here I am working on the pattern testing it out to see if I like it and it doesn’t work…the count is off, there is something wrong.

Yesterday I figure out that I will have to deconstruct the pattern to suit the image in my head. *sigh* I put the yarn down and go to bed.

This morning when I got up and wandered into the living room to find that Henry had at some point taken the yarn and played havoc with it around the dining-room table. I couldn’t very well scold him. It was my mistake for leaving it out in the first place knowing that he is the Destoyer of Yarn and all. I searched for the end, thinking that he had unravelled all of my progress from the previous day in his playing, and was pleasantly surprised. The entire piece I worked up was still intact. While the ball of yarn itself was a mess the project was not. Truly a Protector of Projects is the Henry…

Of course  in the last hour or so I have completely ripped everything back and started over as I actually write down the pattern as I test it. It’s going to be a long weekend with the yarn and hook.