tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-192330552011-04-21T15:50:37.916-07:00I had to make a special category of things that will never, ever, be seen outside my house...kimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09789741705154101797noreply@blogger.comBlogger11100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19233055.post-1132816399722883072005-11-23T14:53:00.000-08:002005-11-25T12:32:03.323-08:00<a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3006/1773/1600/DSCF0890.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3006/1773/320/DSCF0890.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br />When I first started knitting, I was lured in by the <strike>promise</strike> lie of the one-skein-scarf. A long dramatic scarf that I could wrap around my neck? Or a little <em>objet</em> to drape around my shoulders? I'm there! Give me yarn! <br /><br />I found a pattern online of a little shawl that called for one skein of Trendsetter Eyelash and one skein of Trendsetter Charm. It looked so pretty casually thrown over the model's shoulders. I decided that I needed one.So, wandering around my local Ben Franklin's, I spied a skein of Trendsetter's <a href="http://www.trendsetteryarns.com/yarns.htm">Crisantemo</a> in one of my favourite colours - olive green. Furry eyelash and colourful bits! Can't fail with this!<br /><br />So..I cast on...and knitted...and knitted..and realized, this was not a shawl. This was a bandanna. And then my husband saw it.<a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3006/1773/1600/DSCF0893.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3006/1773/320/DSCF0893.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><br /><br />D: "What is it?"<br /><br />Me: "A scarf...what do you think it is?"<br /><br />D: "Is it supposed to look like that?"<br /><br />Me: (Starting to give <em>the look</em>)Yes...why?<br /><br />D: "I mean...is it supposed to look like grass? Is it a rug?"<br /><br />Me: "No... I told you...it's a scarf." <br /><br />D: "Well....is it supposed to look like fur? Because, you know...it's green." <br /><br />Fashion advice coming from someone who buys his socks in a plastic sack.<br /><br />And then I realized something. I'm not really a fun-fur type of person. And, being 100% polyester, it was HOT, and itchy. <br /><br />Good thing it looks good on someone else I know.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/19233055-113281639972288307?l=seekimknittheugly.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>kimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09789741705154101797noreply@blogger.com2