Guess who just broke one of her brand-spanking-new size 1 needles?
Yeah, that’d be me. >_< Anyway. I've decided that I definitely have a love/hate relationship with knitting scarves. On the one hand, they're very much a means for experimentation. I like to play. I seem to have a bit of a phobia of following patterns exactly as written. I'm addicted to color. And so the nice thing about scarves is that I can mess with a whole lot of things and not worry too much about it. Also, I like wearing them, and they're generally a pretty easy thing to work on while you're watching a subtitled movie or something. On the other hand, they can drag. There's a point when the playing turns into sheer tedium, and unfortunately that point happens fairly early on. Unless you're using a pattern that really requires your attention (ever try to double-knit a long scarf with both sides striped in three colors? that experiment definitely kept me awake), you can't help being consumed by the boredom of it all, and then at that point you can't really do anything else while you're working on it, which sort of defeats one of my main reasons for knitting scarves in the first place. I need to keep my hands busy most of the time in order to concentrate on something, so scarves are handy for that, but at the same time, if I have to use a complicated pattern to keep awake, they take up all my attention. It's a vicious cycle. So remind me why I'm adding yet another scarf to my list of works in progress? Oh yeah, because I want to play again and I want another accessory. DOH. At least I've also started my first pair of socks (which would be when I snapped my needle in two), and will probably start swatching for Shimmer very soon (I've had the yarn for awhile, but got distracted by holiday knitting), and since I need/want a cute wrap and loved the Cozy pattern so much I'm making one for myself in black. So I'll have opportunity to distract myself if I start getting bored with the scarf... even if I do have a project temporarily halted by the needle issue.
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