Tonight I was going to quickly cut those pieces of heart trim into flower-sized lengths, so I could quickly sew them onto the class sample and quickly write a post for the blog.
Ha.
The heart motifs are sort of interconnected. When I cut them apart, the motifs before and after the cut were messed up. It took ages to figure out how to rescue the loops that formed the heart shapes, in addition to the ages it took just to separate the pieces. I would have been better off, and further along, just knitting each one separately.
Live and learn.
And that is what this workshop is all about! We have to make mistakes so we can learn. It’s often frustrating. We need to be frustrated so we will think of new ways to solve problems.
During class, I am there to smooth out some of that frustration. The classmates often brainstorm to come up with design solutions. I love this kind of class. Keeps me on my toes.
The upshot of my little heart-break-trim is that I think there may be an easier way to make it. Knit a long strip of stockinette stitch. Use a length of yarn with a tapestry needle to loop up and down and pull the heart shapes together.
That will be another project someday. Maybe.