Over one winter break during my Fulbright years, I wrote my first and (to date) only knitting pattern—though “pattern” is a pretty generous word for what I’m about to describe. I used enormously fat needles and three strands of yarn held together, cast on somewhere around 20 stitches, and then knit until it was long enough to somewhat snuggly encircle a neck (about 12 inches, as I recall). Then I sewed the ends together, and done. A neck warmer. I made a bunch of them to give as gifts, and each one took about an hour from start to finish. I called the pattern “the achievable goal.”
The achievable goal
The achievable goal
The achievable goal
Over one winter break during my Fulbright years, I wrote my first and (to date) only knitting pattern—though “pattern” is a pretty generous word for what I’m about to describe. I used enormously fat needles and three strands of yarn held together, cast on somewhere around 20 stitches, and then knit until it was long enough to somewhat snuggly encircle a neck (about 12 inches, as I recall). Then I sewed the ends together, and done. A neck warmer. I made a bunch of them to give as gifts, and each one took about an hour from start to finish. I called the pattern “the achievable goal.”