The Doctor is In

So you’ve knitted for a month, or a year, or a cycle of Wagner’s Ring. You’ve done all that you can to that sweater or dress or motorcycle cozy. Except to cut the steek.

This UFO now represents not only the knitting allowance invested in its yarn, but all the time and effort required to get it to this stage, as well. And there it sits. Still in the tote bag or storage unit where you left it until such time as the adequate stores of courage could be found to cut the steek.

You’ve followed along with me on my adventures, inwardly cringing as I ruthlessly hack up my knitting. You’ve heard me bang on about how hard it isn’t to cut open a tube of knitting. But still your steek remains uncut.

You’ve revisited this project a number of times. Maybe even re-read the pattern instructions right up to their blithe direction to cut the steek. “As if!” your would-be steekmaker cries. It’s just too daunting. What if all that time and money and effort end in disaster? What if the whole thing falls to pieces? What if the cutting goes fine but the finishing is a nightmare? Maybe you’ve even come to “Eeek! Steeks!” class with me to learn the finer points of the operation, but just need a little more confidence.

So there the poor little UFO sits, waiting for the proper planetary alignment to see its day in the sun.

I’ve been there, Gentle Readers; O I have.

Today I present a solution: Come visit me in my virtual living room, and I’ll help you sort it out.

Yes! I’m throwing a little steek party, and I really want you to come. It will be an open workshop. You can practice one or more steek techniques with me. Or brush up on just the one you think you’ll use on an actual garment. Or play a few rounds of “Stump The Teacher” with me by offering your hardest questions. For these three hours, I’m all yours, and anything goes with regard to steek-y goodness. Want to know how to add a steek to a pattern that doesn’t call for one? Want to change the size or shape of some knitting that isn’t quite right? Got general stranded colorwork questions you’ve been burning to ask? Well here’s the opportunity. Join me on 02-23 at 10AM PST for gobs of knitterly fun.

Click HERE to register.

I’m here to help you screw your courage to the sticking place, my friends, because the only wrong knitting project is the one that never gets completed.