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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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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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