As I near completion on yet another commissioned knitting project, I am finding myself not at all happy with the results. Oh the work is fine, the object looks fine, the quality of product would be rated good and acceptable by most people’s standards, but … I have never liked the way stranded color-work looks and acts on stretchy knits like hats or gloves (or even sweaters). There are only two ways to do this kind of color-work though, and I chose the method I had done before. I am having second thoughts about that now, because I am really not happy with the way it looks and feels.

Therefore, I will be taking the thing apart again and starting over from scratch for the third time. Over the years, I have found that projects I end up being most pleased with always end up being made three times before officially being declared finished. Not that they totally suck in earlier incarnations, but for me three seems to be the magic number for knitting happiness. It’s time consuming and annoying, but being proud and happy with the finished product at the end of it all makes it worth the extra work (at least I tell myself that is true).

With that said, I think I’ll have a really early lunch and then go spend the afternoon knitting the same damn thing for the third time.