I spent a couple of hours tonight looking through a discussion thread in a forum on Ravelry about obscure/little-known patterns people had found or had done. It's like 122 pages long, and was started over two years ago, so there's a lot of stuff in there. I didn't look through the whole thing, but even with what I have gone through, I found so many things I want to knit. Man. There are some super cute patterns out there, people! And I have to make this: there's a pattern I found called a John Muir Scarf. I sort of love John Muir. It's basically because of him that we have national parks. (Well, him and some other people, of course.) So, I'm definitely going to have to do that.
My problem is I finish things I've been working on, and then don't know where to go next because what if I pick something wrong for someone, they don't like the particular pattern or something? Well. I think I decided that I'm going to start just knitting patterns that I want to knit. And maybe I'll just have a stash of things, and try to guess what any particular person might like, or just let them pick something out themselves.
Or I won't. Who knows.
I do know this: if I ever have kids, I'm probably going to knit them those weird/awkward/embarrassing things people knit for kids and make them wear because they're kids, and what do they know? Like...super-cute reindeer hats. Or snowman hats. Thankfully I haven't gotten into sweaters yet, so I won't be knitting awkward sweaters a la Mrs. Weasley.
Speaking of, there's a website with tons of awesome Harry-Potter related knitting patterns. I doubt I'll ever do any in actuality, but they're fun to think about! (And according to that site, 39 days until HP 7.1 comes out!)
Gosh. I love knitting. I so want to be better at it. Very much.
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