I seem to be in a finishing kind of mood. The school year is just about over. I finished up that long term subbing assignment a week ago. I'm using up and throwing out all sorts of things that have been lingering around me for a while.
And I finally finished that damn dragon!
I have gathered the story of this piece as told on this blog into some handy dandy links:
- Time to Start Over (1/22/24)
- Plotting and Planning (3/25/24)
- Grand Plans (4/8/24)
- Finally Starting Over (11/11/24)
- Learning Curve (11/18/24)
- Rawr: Or Redoing the Dragon (4/21/25)
- Xing Error (4/28/25)
- Two Rows (5/12/25)
But, as I'm sure you don't want to peruse all those, I can give you the story in brief. I got this idea to create a small dragon bag using the first swatch I made of this dragon. I only needed to knit a second one. Easy-peasy, right?
I didn't even mention the thing on the blog until I ran into a snag. I made a couple glaring errors. And I realized the only way to fix it was to frog it. It took me ten months to get the time and mental energy to rip it all out and start over.
Then, I whined about the molasses slow progress I made on it since November. Until two weeks ago. It occurred to me then that if I committed to knitting two rows on this thing a day, I could actually get it finished.
Since today is day fourteen after I said I had fourteen two-row days to complete the dragon portion of the piece (not including the border stuff over the top of it), I think I can say small, doable goals were the way to go.
As it turns out, I did not knit just two rows every day. I did a day of four rows. That had to do with a specific cable crossing that I couldn't leave half done. And the last five rows I did at one sitting as they weren't very complicated. (The last few rows got very simple as the dragon was finished off.)
I finished all of that on Wednesday. On Saturday I finished off the rows above the dragon itself.
And now I get to figure out how I want to turn this and the blue one into a tote bag. Or maybe I'll just sew them together and create a pillow? I'm not exactly sure. But I've got all the time to figure that out now.
Congrats on getting your Dragon done. A tote vs a pillow...hum, thinking you would probably use the tote more? Then again a pretty decorative pillow to see daily would be nice. And you can keep flipping it from the blue to the green side. LOVE the Color.
ReplyDeleteThanks. I just used yarn I already had on hand.
DeleteCongrats, it’s beautiful
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DeleteIt looks great.
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Deletethecontemplativecat here. wow. That is like having a pregnant project which won't deliver for the major part of a year. It looks awesome. A tote bag or a pillow? I'd go for a pillow, myself. I would wreck the tote.
ReplyDeleteI just did not have the energy to work on it. I get them done eventually, though.
DeleteAs quickly as the school year is ending...just as quick you'll be back in a classroom.
ReplyDeleteGlad to see that you made it!
ReplyDeleteThat was a great idea to get yourself to finish it. It looks good.
ReplyDeleteThis is Birgit. This looks great and taking small s5eps always works. I’d vote for the tote.
ReplyDeleteYeah, once I got past the idea I'd have an hour or two to work on it at a time, things moved along much better.
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