meet the zoolander of knitting.....

so i decided not to finish my "ribbed for her pleasure scarf." i got pretty far w it, but ill be honest w ya. i still have not made it to the knitting store (which happens to be in stitch 'n bitch on page241 and also happens to be around the corner from my apartment. ha). so instead of completing a scarf, i made a scarfette, long enough to be wrapped around the neck and buttoned closed so that it could still be useful. but, because i havent yet learned how to make a button hole, i erased it to move on to my next lesson....

...increasing and decreasing. ugh. this has to be the hardest thing i have done so far. harder than learning how to cast on- which was ridic when i tried to do that the first time! so im working my way through the steps- which really should be accompanied by more pics but i digress- trying all the different techniques to increase and decrease. i couldnt get how to do the bar increase, but i remembered from the cute slipper pattern from my momma that i needed a m1, which i had no idea what it was when i originally read the pattern. but now i know. m1 is "make one increase." woo hoo! i not only remembered what it was called but how to do it! so i increased the shit out of my swatch, smiling every time i started a new, longer row.

so i continued on with tonights lessons. the next lesson in increasing is the yarn over- lame name- so i read the description. something about large gaps in my knitting?? NEXT! homie dont play that. i get that sometimes you may want to make something resembling a doily, but not me, not now. so i started to read how to decrease. i thought this would be easy. i can make something longer, how could i possibly not make anything shorter?! so i started knitting and decreasing, or what i thought was decreasing. but i was wrong. instead of getting shorter, my rows were just getting a big ol bump. and thats when i realized it- im the zoolander of knitting. i can increase, but i cant decrease! (for those not in the know, zoolander is the story of one of the worlds top males models who is really, really, ridiculously good looking but cant turn left! gasp! i now know how he feels. )

so for now im going to go back to just making rows get longer and longer. and hopefully at some point, making them get shorter will just come naturally. if zoolander can learn to turn left, i can decrease a row!