This sweater may look like a big funny lump of yarn but it used to be a bigger funnier blob of sweater that wasn't right. This is the yarn from my very first sweater project. That sweater turned out all kittywumpus and not right. There were so many things wrong with it that I refused to wear it.
You see, when I first started knitting I did it wrong. I knit every stitch through the back and purled funny too. My stitches weren't twisted but there was no way I could have followed a pattern with decreases.
I found out when my mom watched me knitting one day and said "Katie, you knit funny." I was very offended because obviously I was doing everything right, didn't my work look nice? She calmed me down and said yes my work looked very nice but I was actually knitting backwards. She then showed me how she (and everyone else in the world) did it and how that was different from what I was doing. She explained to me calmly that while I could continue to knit in this backward fashion I would have to switch around every pattern that I ever came across to suit my weirdo style. That seemed like a lot of math that I didn't want to do so I changed my ways.
Unfortunately, what I didn't realize was that my old gauge was very different from my new gauge. So when my sweater was done it was puffy on top and tight on the bottom. I tried to make the best of it but I ended up setting it aside and not finishing it. I was disappointed.
A few years later I saw it sitting forlornly in a basket and I thought "I want to wear that sweater, but not like that." So I ripped it out, wound up the yarn and started a new-old project. Hopefully this time the result will be beautiful.
