🤷🏼‍♀️ A cautionary tale 😂 · Circular Machine Knitting Addi

🤷🏼‍♀️ A cautionary tale 😂

It started with a bag full of mystery yarn 🤷🏼‍♀️ — unlabeled, unpredictable, and perfect for “practice.” The dark yarn behaved beautifully; the light one? Not so much. It snagged, split, and made my poor needle 29 struggle to get from under each stitch it made, working overtime just to keep up.

After many repairs and a growing sense of “let’s get this done,” as the dawn was creeping in, I stopped at 180 rows. Then, of course, I realized I’d forgotten the waste yarn cast-off — too late to fix it! I carried on, pretending it was all part of the plan.

The waste yarn on the other end tangled, split, and protested several attempts to remove it. Eventually, I had to cut it free. I finished the scarf anyway, though I’ll probably undo it later.

Bottom line: if you don’t know your yarn, expect surprises. But if you keep going with joy, every knot becomes part of the story.

Though edited a bit the above was written with AI from the longer version below which I wrote myself. Why? Because it was long and I don't want to waste your time if you don't want to read so much. 🙃😁🙂 Be warned, 😁 the following is basically repeated but somehow longer. 🤷🏼‍♀️😂

🤷🏼‍♀️ A cautionary tale 😂

I'm not thrilled with the turnout of this one. 😆 Also not disappointed since it's all part of the learning adventure.

As I mentioned in my 1st project post, I have bags of yarn. Many are unlabeled. So, I think, best used for practice projects like these.

The dark color on the scarf is soft and the light color is not so soft. I had a lot of issues with the light color on the machine and needle 29 kept getting stuck under its stitch that I had to help it out quite a bit.

I did many repairs along the way with the light color but had enough and stopped at 180 rows. It was close to finishing the light color anyway.

I forgot to finish with waste yarn. By the time I remembered I'd already cranked that first cast off row. I decided to complete that process and pretend it was intended 😂. I used contrast color to pick up the stitches off the machine. I had to do some drop stitch repairs during cast off as some stitches were not right.

Definitely not easy to close the end with a single cast off strand instead of a few rows. Had the cast on rows to show me the difference. 🙃🙂

The waste yarn cast on rows apparently had some stitch issues and it kept getting stuck while pulling it out. I ended up cutting it in two places that for some reason the stands were split! No idea how that happened. 🤷🏼‍♀️

I will likely undo the scarf but I did finish it all off just so I could have another item completed.

I wish I had watched both tutorials to plan what I'd need for each then looked through my bag of yarn that I'm working with and choose from the start. It looks like the first yarn I used on the hat (dark color) was the same as the first yarn on the scarf. Though I didn't know for sure until the scarf was done because the skein didn't look the same from memory 😂.

Bottom line: If you don't know about the yarn you're using expect issues. 😁 If you choose to proceed, do it with joy!

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