Forgive me for not introducing my Blogging Advent Calendar properly yesterday. Better late than never is always a good attitude in my book. A friend of mine introduced me to a new photography app on my phone in the week and I'm loving this pinhole camera photo so I thought I would use it as a bit of a theme to my posts for this month along with one (or two or three) photos that I have taken using my macro lens.
I am going to refrain from using bad language here on my blog, but believe me there has been some used this morning in connection with my Ripple blanket. I am on The Last Row and look! I don't have enough yarn. Grrrr!
I'm feeling so frustrated and am now faced with a dilemma. Do I use a scrap left over from another colour to finish this last little bit and use the change in colour as a reminder that this is the bottom of the blanket? (The chances are that this tiny little portion will never really be seen as it will be tucked in to the bottom of the bed). Or do I track down another ball of wool?
I'm swaying towards using a scrap of the nearest colour so that it is not so noticeable and employing the wabi-sabi aesthetic to the project, embracing the hand-made and all that.
What would you do?
Use a scrap! It seems silly to start a new ball! Otherwise, just forget about that last colour?
ReplyDeleteCan't you just ditch the green stripe and make it a teeny bit smaller?
ReplyDeleteIs it a color I bought too? If so I might have a scrap for you!
ReplyDeleteAnd I love the new header and camera aesthetic.
K x
What is the yarn? I'm sure some one of us out here will have a little to spare.
ReplyDeleteI would most definitely go for the wabi-sabi approach! It would be a shame to have to buy another ball for such a small section!
ReplyDeleteHello, another vote for the wabi-sabi approach from this new reader. happy to have found you, and I'll be back :D
ReplyDeleteI'd either use a scrap or just make that last stripe narrower. But then I'm stingy ;-)
ReplyDeleteUse a scrap! I always make a mistake in the things I make, or they're not perfect in some way but I sort of love it. When something goes a bit wrong I just think, oh well that's the not perfect bit!! It's like life, makes you appreciate the good bits more ;)
ReplyDeletePut out the word - someone is bound to have that yarn in a stash somewhere.
ReplyDeleteLiz
I bet someone will have a bit in their stash, if not I'd definitely use a scrap of another colour.
ReplyDeleteEmbrace the handmade - it will make you smile when you look at in the future. If it is too perfect it won't look handmade with love anyway :-) xxx
ReplyDeleteI would do what Val suggests and just make that last strip narrower - you won't notice and the blanket will still be gorgeous! Lucy x
ReplyDeleteI would lie on the floor and sob until I found another ball of the same wool. I know it's pathetic but it would kill me to have a different colour in the last row.
ReplyDeleteIf you look at very old patchwork quilts - particlarly those made in religious communities - there is always a deliberate "mistake" made somewhere on the premise that "Only God is perfect". I stand by that in a lot of my work!
ReplyDeleteJust go for it - whether it's a scrap or a skinny stripe!