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Old May 22nd 07, 10:31 PM posted to rec.crafts.textiles.yarn
Vintage Purls
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Default Lion Incredible ribbon yarn for sweater?

On May 22, 11:45 pm, Melinda Meahan - take out TRASH to reply
wrote:
Actually, the reason I asked about it here rather than just jump into it
is because at this point in my life I don't have that much extra time to
have the luxury of being able to waste it. So for a first big project,
I'd rather follow the rules to learn them before I have a feel for when
to break them.


I can appreciate that but even with the perfect pattern and the
perfect materials you may not get a finished product you are 100%
pleased with. If you will only settle for a desirable end product and
the journey to that end is not satisfying for you then pay someone
else to make it.

It may be everything you imagined and more (and I hope it is), but
when one is a novice at anything (and even when one is an expert),
doing something for the first time often leads to a less than perfect
result. If you can love the journey and love the outcome even with its
flaws then happiness will be yours.

Okay, enough preaching from me (even I'm sick of myself). Best wishes
for the project.

VP

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Old May 23rd 07, 12:13 AM posted to rec.crafts.textiles.yarn
Melinda Meahan - take out TRASH to reply
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Default Lion Incredible ribbon yarn for sweater?

Vintage Purls wrote:

I can appreciate that but even with the perfect pattern and the
perfect materials you may not get a finished product you are 100%
pleased with. If you will only settle for a desirable end product and
the journey to that end is not satisfying for you then pay someone
else to make it.



I must not be expressing myself correctly or something, because this is
absolutely NOT what I was trying to get at. All I'm asking is, "Am I
making a incredibly foolish mistake by trying this pattern and this yarn
for a beginner project?" and I want the truth, not "Well, just try it
for yourself and see if it works."

I just don't want to start off with something that will automatically
start with one or two strikes against me. I'd like to start off with
something that is simple, relatively foolproof, and likely to be
successful. If I start off with a good pattern and an appropriate yarn,
my chances of success are going to be far greater than if I start off
with a pattern incompatible with the yarn.

IOW, I would prefer to learn from other people's mistakes when they are
easily avoided. I'm sure I will make enough on my own without making
ones that I could have avoided had I take the time to ask the advice of
more experienced knitters, which is exactly what I am trying to do.

Here are two examples of the kind of thing I am talking about (sorry
that they are sewing examples -- I have 30-some-odd years of experience
with sewing and that's the only parallel I can think of to try to give
examples with): On the sewing newsgroup, we get people asking about
buying new sewing machines and they only want to spend $100-200. (Or
worse, wanting to buy a serger and only wanting to spend the same amount
of money.) They may be sincere and may think they have a chance of
success, but those of us who are more experienced and have already tried
those machines (BT, DT, GTTS) try to gently steer them toward buying an
older reconditioned machine, because they will have an easier time on an
older machine rather than the new el cheapo machines that will not hold
their tension. Those who listen to us and change their minds are
generally glad they did so. Are these people going to make mistakes
when they start sewing? Yep. But they will make fewer mistakes and be
less frustrated than if they have to fight with their shoddily-made
sewing machine (or especially a serger) while they are learning to sew.
And that is what I am trying to accomplish by asking advice of
knitters more experienced than I am.

Another example: My daughter wanted to make her own Christmas dress one
year when she was 10. She chose a complicated Princess-line pattern and
chose velvet fabric to make it with. Unfortunately, she chose the same
types of pattern and same fabric for three years in a row. It was so
frustrating for her to complete these complicated projects in a
difficult, unforgiving fabric that she got burned out on sewing. I
don't want to burn out on this before I get the chance to try it and see
if I really like it, and since I am better at wanting to learn from
other people's mistakes, that's why I am asking.

The answers that I have gotten that this yarn might not hold its shape,
is somewhat scratchy when worn, etc., are helpful and I can use them to
temper how I complete this project, and I appreciate that. But if I
just wanted to launch into this whether it's a good idea and see what
happens, I wouldn't have come asking for advice in the first place.

*scratching head in puzzlement, thinking that a "go ahead and try it and
see if it works or not" approach sounds remarkably like the Kaiser
advice nurses I used to call when my children were babies whose only
answers to whether I needed to have my child seen in the middle of the
night or if it could wait until the morning was "We can't really tell
you anything over the phone. If you think there might be a problem, you
need to bring your child in to be seen," which, I am pretty sure, was
not why Kaiser was paying them big bucks to man phones in the middle of
the night*
 




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