In an earlier post, I talked about starting a baby blanket using Rowan cotton chenille and how I've found it to be hard going. After only a few more rows past what I showed in the picture, I am ready to throw in the towel. Really. I do not have the patience to keep fighting the cotton. It won. It will not be a baby blanket, stubborn thing.
Now I know that not everything in life is as easy as knitting with, say, Cashmerino. However. Why make life any more difficult than it already is? Does anyone think that Cashmerino is "too good" for a baby blanket? I have a huge stash of it which I thought would be another sweater but it's really too hot for that. Besides, I need to somehow use up my stash as much as possible before the baby comes - the room she will be in is currently my yarn room. *waahhh* (That's me crying)
Another yarn that I have totally lost patience for is Caron Fling. I bought this at AC Moore in North Carolina over the holidays. I liked the knitted sample scarf and thought I would make an everyday scarf for work. Fling is a "pigtail" chenille.
Pigtail. Chenille. What is wrong with those two words together?
You got it, it's even harder to work with than the Rowan CC! What was I thinking??
So at the moment I'm eyeing my current projects on the needles: a pair of socks using Cascade Fixation, a pair of socks using Trekking, and a baby poncho using Berroco Plush. The most instant gratification would be the poncho so I suppose I will work on that. It is my own pattern, a poncho done in the round. You'd think I would be more excited but the Plush was orginally slated for something else.

That's all the ranting and raving I have for Monday. (is it Monday? I really can't keep track anymore)