Oh Wool of Bad Decisions.

I have a stash of wonderful, hand-dyed, soft-spun single wool hanging out here, and it's been hanging out here for a long while, too. It's indigo-dyed in two shades of blue, plus there's a grey and a brownish grey to go with it. However, it seems to have some make-a-bad-decision vibe hanging to it.

Originally, I bought it to knit myself a Pinwheel Sweater - only to find out, when the thing was almost finished, that it does not flatter me at all and, to be blunt, actually even looked butt-ugly on me.

[caption id="attachment_2149" align="alignnone" width="902"] Almost done. And unfortunately not The Thing For Me. At all.


[caption id="attachment_2148" align="alignnone" width="902"] Sleeve finished with a tiny bit of entrelac-like knitting.


So I frogged it. And then thought about what to do with it, and I came up with the idea to do an illusion-knitted Tardis scarf. Which I started, and I made good progress on,  and now it has been almost finished for a while...

[caption id="attachment_2147" align="alignnone" width="602"] The Tardis knit, seen from above...


[caption id="attachment_2146" align="alignnone" width="640"] ... and at an angle. It really looks Tardis-y!


This, however, has proven to be another bad decision. Illusion knitting, to work properly, needs to be rather firm. The result of this? A very wide, very firm piece of knit fabric that will not be comfortable or easy to wear as a scarf. Or anything else, actually. And I do intend to wear my knit things - otherwise I could decide to use it as a rug, or wall-hanging, and it might do nicely there, but somehow, I'd prefer it to be wearable. (It's also not as illusionary as I had hoped; the motif is rather visible from straight downwards still.)

So I will frog it again. And next time? Well. I'm thinking about trying to make a jacket/cozy sweater-like thing out of the wool again, but this time, using a pattern that actually flatters me, and probably employing the mix of colours to do some nice entrelac.

[caption id="attachment_2145" align="alignnone" width="640"] Entrelac knit with the same kind of wool. I think this will be the thing.


After all, this looks promising, doesn't it?