The ugly underside of knitting flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license
Today’s TDC says that:
‘Like an evil twin or a twisted pair, happy places can have an ugly underside’. Is your happy place always happy? What is its underside.
On my knitting chest there is a bag containing a jacket half knitted by my MiL many years ago. I have plans to finish it and gift it to her daughter, my SiL, but have not got around to it yet. It’s a thing of beauty – a jacket from a pattern by Kaffe Fassett which is incredibly complex as every row is different, and with three different colours in every row. This means that the two yarns not being knitted have to be carried across the back, and this means that the back is never as beautiful as the front. There are also many, many loose ends that will need to be sewn in at the end, sigh (like most knitters I loathe this part!). However, as my MiL was such a neat crafter, the back of this project is actually not as bad as it could be.
Anyway, that’s the ugly underside of any piece of knitting – not just what the back looks like, but all of the work that goes into making the final version look beautiful.
