March 04, 2010

Stool. Corner. Dunce Cap. Sit.

I see the light at the end of the Flower Basket Shawl tunnel (only 2 repeats plus the border remaining), although (a) time-wise, I’m officially competing in the Special Olympics now and (b) after what happened at lunch, I think I should just toss in the whole thing.

A co-worker paused by my lunch table to see my handiwork and I showed her the printed pattern, then lay the shawl down and stretched it out—à la severe blocking—so she could see what the finished product would look like. Right away, she said, “Sure ‘nuff; there they are, flower baskets.”

My response: “What?! Where?! Hey, look, flower baskets! I never noticed!”

SRSLY?! I’m knitting the Flower Basket Shawl and I never noticed there were flower baskets in the pattern? Got in himmel.

Even worse, when you know they're there, they're so obvious: A basket, a basket handle, and a flower.

As a distraction from my dim-wittedness, here's my one and only ever lolcat picture:

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Posted by Ryan at March 4, 2010 03:40 PM
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{insert snark here} Yes, I am giggling at you.

Posted by: Elaine on March 4, 2010 04:55 PM

Elaine - I see your snark and raise you one snark!

Posted by: Linda "K" on March 4, 2010 05:24 PM

It's okay Ryan, I did the same thing with the Spinner's Shawl . . . didn't see the spiders until after I had finished knitting. Good thing as I may have never knit it, I HATE spiders.

Posted by: Ginger on March 4, 2010 06:12 PM

Sounds like something I would do.

Posted by: Lisa on March 5, 2010 04:11 AM

I went to Ravelry to get a good look at the Flower Basket shawl and my reaction? "Oh, those leaf shaped things? I guess those could be flower baskets." So I'm right there in the corner with you.

Posted by: Jen Anderson on March 5, 2010 07:21 AM

Right there with ya, sistuh. I've knit one...didn't then nor do I now see flower baskets. Still pretty though!

Posted by: Amy on March 5, 2010 12:22 PM

I would do that too! Sometimes lace is a lot like the optical illusions that I looked at in grade school. It was supposed to be a pair of faces or a candle stick, and sometimes you just couldn't see one of the images even if you knew it was there!

Posted by: Seanna Lea on March 6, 2010 10:10 PM

Well, sure enough! There they are!

Posted by: LauraSue on March 11, 2010 08:28 AM
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