The Beginning…

…of a sweater always starts out so promising. You have pretty yarn, you have needles, a pattern, if you are lucky, a nice bag to put it all in

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you cast on, you knit. You check the pattern, you keep knitting, back and forth (if it’s a flat knit), knit, purl

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you admire the fabric you’ve made so far, you count stitches to make sure you haven’t gotten ahead of yourself

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you decide to blog your progress, you pull out the camera, artfully arrange your knitting…

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…and then realize that at this point, the only thing it resembles is a shapeless blob.

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…but you blog about it anyway. ;op