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I have been having the worst case of knitting enui. Everything dragged on and felt uninspired. I knit socks and am still working on a scarf. I hate the yarn, hate the pattern and the color is so meh. It felt like knitter’s block. I even picked up an old cross stitch project that I had started months ago, and I still felt unmotivated.<\/p>\n
I remembered that I had this yarn and decided that the best way to beat the block was to knit something else. I already have a huge list of “want to knit” projects, so naturally I found a totally new pattern that wasn’t on that list.<\/p>\n
Ivy Line<\/a> is a simple top-down cardigan. The construction is interesting and I have finally joined the body. The lace is easy enough to make it interesting and simple enough to make it enjoyable. I am using Ice Yarn’s Virgin Wool,<\/a> it is smooth and knits up nicely. It is not a raglan style knit, you knit the yoke first then the back. Then you pick up for the fronts and join. There is a lot of picking up so far and I suspect there will be more to come. I am usually not a fan of picking up stitches. I find it tedious but they have come out looking well.<\/p>\n To be honest, I really needed this. I needed a project that would make knitting enjoyable again. Maybe I am also looking forward to the finished knit itself. I sometimes just knit stuff that I don’t really want to use up yarn in my stash or to just have something to do. I am trying to stop that. To only focus on things I enjoy both as a process and a product.<\/p>\n I am already thinking of my next project. I really want a nice bedspread and a summer tshirt or dress. So I am looking at patterns that I think I might enjoy working on and using too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I have been having the worst case of knitting enui. Everything dragged on and felt uninspired. I knit socks and am still working on a scarf. I hate the yarn, hate the pattern and the color is so meh. It felt like knitter’s block. I even…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2257,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ghostkit_customizer_options":"","ghostkit_custom_css":"","ghostkit_custom_js_head":"","ghostkit_custom_js_foot":"","ghostkit_typography":"","_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-knitting"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.chocolatemintsinajar.com\/craft\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/IvyLine.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p10SDt-Ao","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chocolatemintsinajar.com\/craft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chocolatemintsinajar.com\/craft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chocolatemintsinajar.com\/craft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chocolatemintsinajar.com\/craft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chocolatemintsinajar.com\/craft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2256"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.chocolatemintsinajar.com\/craft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2256\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2258,"href":"https:\/\/www.chocolatemintsinajar.com\/craft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2256\/revisions\/2258"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chocolatemintsinajar.com\/craft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chocolatemintsinajar.com\/craft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chocolatemintsinajar.com\/craft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chocolatemintsinajar.com\/craft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}