GNAAARGH!

[puddingcat]

Why is lace knitting so difficult? It shouldn't be; it's just normal things in different patterns, and is (after all) just a big game of Me Vs the Yarn. I mean, really; even in my worst times, I know damned well that I'm more intelligent than mixed fibres. Thre is no reason for me to be making so many mistakes.

At least Branching Out only has 25 stitches; tinking a row isn't the end of the world. When your row is TWO HUNDRED STITCHES, though, and your yarn is FLUFFY - GNAAARGH!

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So, fanfic. Yes, I foolishly signed up for 8 prompts at springkink (I had ideas that wouldn't go away). I've started three of them. So far, so good.

Most of the hair-pulling, breast-beating writing angst I see is of the "Oh no! I have no ideas!" or "I can't write smut!" varieties. I, on the other hand (because I just *have* to be different) have found that I have no problem with the rude fun bits. No; what I have roblems with (apart from conversation, because my imagination is hugely visual) is emotions. Because, if a character shows emotion, that implies I've felt that emotion (or read about it in enough badfics to remember the general description), and the teenager still lurking in the back of my head says that's bad, because people will point, and laugh. At this rate, I'll end up with 8 lab reports with bonus Smut sections.

Dammit. I hate teenagers.

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[claire-wain.livejournal.com]

Two hundred stitches? Fluffy wool? *cries*

I have to keep unravelling Branching Out, because I can't work out how to tink it. I get very confused with all the yaarn overs, I think I need a person to show me how to do it properly!

[puddingcat.livejournal.com]

I found BO a lot easier when I worked out that the "slip 2 stitches then knit them" bit actually meant k2tog tbl. Makes life *much* simpler :)

200 sts = centre back of neck, ove the shoulder, down the front edge and round to the sideseam on Mum's cardigan. In the end yesterday, I knitted 3 rows and undid three rows. Ho hum.