the blue blog archives: never give up, never surrender

I made it through the grafting on the front of my design project. It was a nightmare! Somehow I managed to get through the first three rib repeats by trying something out, ripping and retrying but without learning the sequence. I had to start saying what I was doing aloud to really get the sequence down. It reminded me of that part of Galaxy Quest where they have to go through the chompers and Brandon is giving them the sequence over the vox thingy:

"You wanna take a left and then just straight on through the chompers... Okay, the sequence is - two-two-four-two-..."

And I'm totally feeling like Tawny: "Well screw that! We shouldn't have to DO this! It makes NO LOGICAL SENSE! Well forget it! I am not doing it! This episode was badly written."

posted by alison at 9:44 am | in design workshop

Comments

i think you need a drink. :)

Posted by: shireen at June 2, 2006 9:55 AM

it looks fantastic now though! :) congrats on making it through that.

Posted by: jess at June 2, 2006 10:11 AM

That is freakin' impressive! I almost always have to say it out loud when I'm grafting sock toes...

Posted by: Carrie at June 2, 2006 10:12 AM

Definitely you need a drink. Or three. Ignore the time.

Posted by: Chris at June 2, 2006 10:14 AM

I love that movie...it's looking good. Good Luck!

Posted by: wendy at June 2, 2006 10:27 AM

I feel your pain. I grafted ribbing once, and also found no guidelines about how to do this. I ended up doing multiple practices on swatches, then used sock yarn to graft the row before duplicate stitching in with the actual yarn. craziness!

Posted by: Diana at June 2, 2006 10:46 AM

I can't believe you did that! It looks perfect! Congradulations on a job well done. And I love that movie. It's one of my favorites.

Posted by: Kim at June 2, 2006 11:09 AM

LOL, Galaxy Quest was the first thing I thought of when I saw your title. :) It looks great and you have more fortitude than I have!

Posted by: Christy at June 2, 2006 11:13 AM

Damn you are a bad ass knitter!! Excellent job and completely worth it. I would have thrown it in the trash or ripped it back, so thanks for teaching me something new.

As for Galaxy Quest - one of my top 10 fav movies!! Watch it in spanish sometime, it's even funnier.

Posted by: Inky at June 2, 2006 11:26 AM

By Grabthar's Hammer, what nice grafting! :D

(That movie is hilarious...)

Posted by: Julie at June 2, 2006 11:30 AM

"...even though we have never before met, I have always considered you as a [knitting] father to me" Gorgeous knitting! You are definitely dragging mines.

Posted by: penny at June 2, 2006 11:55 AM

That is one of the 'cult' movies I watch all the time. I also love her comment, "ducts, why is it always ducts?" That is in tribute to the Alien movies I think!

Posted by: Lynette at June 2, 2006 12:30 PM

I'm impressed. I more than likely would have ripped it. Oh, and that movie's pretty funny.

Posted by: Robyn at June 2, 2006 12:30 PM

Another tool to add to the bag of tricks: graft aloud. :)

Posted by: Monica at June 2, 2006 12:41 PM

One of my favourite movies :-)
great job on the grafting

Posted by: janine at June 2, 2006 1:27 PM

LOL! Good thing it didn't turn inside out, then explode!

Posted by: Jen at June 2, 2006 2:20 PM

Heyyyy its impressive and i learnt about purl grafting, butttttttt why didn't you graft where there was no purl?

Posted by: anne at June 2, 2006 3:05 PM

Way to work GQ into a knitting blog! Nice grafting, too.

Posted by: Lara at June 2, 2006 6:21 PM

You're not going to believe this .. but I live in Melbourne (Australia), and I'm actually watching Galaxy Quest at the moment on the telly.

Posted by: vicki at June 3, 2006 5:58 AM

Gosh, I am anxiously waiting for an update on THE BLANKET story!
Cheers

Posted by: sherry at June 3, 2006 9:09 AM