I have been very slowly knitting & designing a lace shawl w/beads. Affectionally nick named the man-thong. I like complicated patterns, so the plan is, as I get bored of knitting one element of the pattern, I will add another. But I have no real plan for any of this. So I’m really just making it up as I go. Which is fine till I decide something really  isn’t working for me. Do I rip out till the starting point or make a mistake?
No not me, I have a crochet hook.
Or my current problem, if I can’t decide between two different designs? Well why not try both? One on each side. Then I’ll go a few rounds and compare.
Then the loosing side will again suffer the crochet hook of correction.

VS.

I know, there is a huuuuuuge difference.

I tried to graph it out, but I was finding that unusually taxing so I’m just plowing ahead. Kind of regretting not putting beads on the leaves, but I’m going through them fast , maybe laying off was a good thing.

This leaf part has been re-done twice, ugg. I’ll wear out my crochet hook soon.
But on a plus note I came up with these cute DNA shaped things on the side of the leaf, I now want to do a whole wrap out of these. With the beads. Well maybe… lets be honest, I’ll get bored with them too. (REALLY how does ANYONE do large sections of stocking-knit stitch?!) And the repercussions of this, my gauge (what little of it I maintain) is terrible. It would make a seasoned knitter weep. I keep telling myself it’s lace no one will notice. It’ll block out later. And it’s just a test piece, once I have a pattern I’ll do the next much nicer. Really. But that means we won’t be starting anything new for a while…..
Okay maybe someone else can do the next one.
Okay yeah, good idea.

On another note: Dear thrift store scarf, I am about to frog you. I’m sorry. You are kind of cute, and I even like your simple cable pattern, but we both know the reason I bought you was your yarn. I have no idea what it is, but the colors remind me of noro, and you are just slightly fuzzy and quite soft. And lets face it, you are far far to short to be one of my scarfs. At best you measure 3 feet, I can’t lie to you each cold day and say maybe tomorrow I’ll wear you. We both know it won’t happen. Last night I finally stopped putting it off, found and pulled out your tail end. It wasn’t even woven in very well. I undid your slip knot and now all I have to do is pull. And you will no longer be a scarf. But you will be a treasured ball of yarn, I might luv you too much to reknit. You might be to special to be one thing, and instead I will just pull you out now and then and imagine you as a hat or gloves. But I promise you when I do knit you up, you will still be gorgeous and I will still love you.With that said, I will be frogging you  this weekend. Go with love thrift shop scarf, I will see you in your next life. With all my love~