Just a quick complaint about a new knitting project...

[electric_blue68]

I should add yarn craft is my 3rd or 4th creative outlet.

Arrrggg...

I tend to smallish, medium small projects.
No blankets, bed spreads, afghans, sweaters, tops etc for me. I salut those who can! Self taught at 50 yrs old. Same for crochet I learned about 4 years later.

My 2 big projects were a 10" X 5 ft scarf in my heady days of first finally learning how to basically knit and purl! 2 previous tries at 17, and mid 30's. Scarf had loads of different knit & purl patterns as I went along.
Crocheted a Big Cowl 30" a round, and 19" high using tripled chunky yarn! Had to get rid of it some years later but I do want to remake it.

Anyway I make smaller decorative scarves, mostly. A few bracelets. An ear band or two. I started one beret but lost it.

I'm trying to knit a decorative scarf but I keep messing up this new for me yarn. It's multi strands cotton blue grey with a very pretty about hair thin polyester strand with intermittent turquoise - cerulean blue glow. Soooo pretty.

But I keep adding a stitch sometimes, dropped one, when you ?pick up something that crosses over your current main stitch. And I'm only doing 11 stitches after I got frustrated w 14! 😑😑😑

Trying to make sure I twist it tight when making the next stitch so the multi strands don't get caught. That at least I've been mostly successful, been willing to leave a few messes.

Oh, well, I just needed to vent.
I will hopefully keep working at it till I get right!

I do have a much easier project to start along w that. My first try with fake fur!
An ear band. That should be done in a few days- while it's cold enough to wear it!👍

[Grey5]

1. Have you tried Ravelry.com?

I have been self taught knitting and crochet from the age of 14, But I have learned most of what I know from the people at Ravelry.com. Such a grand bunch of people. Perhaps you might work with a less difficult yarn until you are more comfortable with the craft. Don't listen to me, I did the same thing with my choice of yarn at first, it will all work out and if you use a different yarn no one gets to comment on your addition to "stash". It's all a learning experience and an investment your quality of life.

[electric_blue68]

2. Ty. Oh, yeah, I was on Ravelry for a year or more. Beautiful site....

Oh, I'm pretty comfortable with what I do. It's been about 20 yrs for knitting, and 16 or so for crochetting.

Real big projects are beyond my patience, and maybe budget. Fancy lace may be beyond my skills, and patience. Although on a rare occasion my serious fascination with something will push me through to pursuit an interest usually Art or Craft related.

I'll just keep fussing w this yarn till I get it right! 😄

Maybe I'll go take a look at Ravelry again. It's been years.

[surrealAmerican]

3. You've happened upon one of the reasons I don't do ...

... stranded color work.

I actually enjoy most other types of knitting, but the fiddliness of working with multiple strands is no fun at all.

[electric_blue68]

4. Ty. I think I wasn't clear.....

I meant that that particular yarn is multi stranded. It's like between 5-7 very thin stands, plus the extremely thin strand with the turquoise, ceurelean blue glow spots.

You know like while there are some yarns with only ?3 strands twisting around each other; this one is so much more.
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As for what you were talking about- I might tried a swatch, or something but didn't pursue it too tricky at the time. It would have been quite a ways back.

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