Yes, I am still mourning the loss of my knitting pattern book.
That was the only crisis that was not salvagable, because it came free with one of the lower priced back issue knitting magazine that I had bought. *sigh*.
But, knitting must go on.
The project itself is somewhat recoverable, I will just pick out some knitting patterns and hopefully be able to get them the same size as the ones I already have.
But I didn’t feel like thinking. Heck, I don’t feel like thinking most days, anyways, hik.
So I put off the project and thought of another. I wanted something easy, and thoughtless (well, almost). I decided to knit a scrunchie. You know, the one you tie your hair with. I keep losing mine, so why not make some rather than buy some eh?
Anyways, first i tried finding out the general measurements of a scrunchie, and found one here. I thought it was a bit big, that 16cm X 56cm, but hey, let’s not think too much about it.
So I used my own recipe for disaster… I mean scrunchie:
3.75mm straight knitting needles
several bits of yarn that I had with me
So off I go.
Most of the patterns I googled did their scrunchie lengthwise. Me, ever impatient, would start with the width and work up to the desired length. So I can stop anytime I want you see?
And the rule about changing yarns or adding new yarn would be to tie the new yarn to the old one, as close as possible to the stitch. The other rule is to start the new yarn at the beginning of a row, makes it neater.
Well. Makcik at this point of time couldn’t care less la about making the wrong side neater la, doing it by the book all la you know? So Makcik cincai cincai knotted all the yarns together to make one looong yarn, only making sure that the yarns of the same colour are knotted together (knot the yarns?? *gasps of horror all over the knitting world*)
I started casting on 30 stitches. Then just so I won’t get bored, I made stripes. Anyways the bits of yarn I had were several colours to begin with. Simple stockinette stitch (i.e. knit one row, purl one row).
I knitted, watched tv, ate, drank, slept, until the whole thing was this length.
At about 46cm, I just about had enough u know? ahahaha.
So after that just sew the ends lengthwise, attach the getah, (the elastic was about 22 cm long, which later I felt was too long so i cut it even shorter, maybe 16cm?)
Then turn over, and secure the ends. This one just do lah, turn however you want it, secure however you feel like. I just attached a huge safety pin on the elastic (so I don’t lose it inside the scrunchie), turned the piece right side, then sewed the elastic together with the other end of the scrunchie to make a round.
VOILAAAAAA! Shiok Sendry Scrunchie!
But one can never not think.
The scrunchie was a bit humongous. Too wide, not long enough, and therefore not scrunched up enough. When I tie my hair with it (bad enough I have only several strands of hair, pathetic really), all wound up, it’s almost as big as my head.
See?
The patterns always said that this is fast-to-make. So why did mine take like..two days??
Because I made a scrunchie for MoonFace’s (remember him from Faraway tree? No? What year were you born again?) wife. *sigh*
Nicks elegantly said that I look like I’m wearing a sock on my head.
Repent now, oh ye of little faith.
Never mind, I’ll try again.
