The Argyle Takeover

I might have mentioned that I'm not very good at following patterns. With time, I become more and more convinced that improvisation is my strength, but it doesn't stop me from trying. I knit some mittens.. They weren't the first mittens I knit (in fact I improvised several pairs of mittens for Christmas gifts last year), but they were the first knitting pattern I've attempted to follow. It was an argyle pattern which is very repetitive, so I thought it would be an easy one to start with...

Unfortunately, in the middle of the first (left) mitten, somewhere in the repeating diamonds and lines the argyle took over and developed a mind of its own. Or, perhaps it was my mind becoming subconsciously bored with the pattern and driving me into an error, which lead to some improvisation. Afterwards came a difficult decision on whether to try sticking the with pattern once again for the right hand, or try to somehow mimic my error. Out of sheer self torture, I chose to stick with to the pattern this time - so in the finished product can be seen what the mittens should have looked like (right side).

I'm very fortunate that Rolf is so supportive of my inconsistencies, since the mittens were for him and he says he doesn't mind at all that they don't actually match. :)

In other news, I got bored and started a business. Ok, well it's something I've been thinking about for a while, and it turns out it was a lot easier than convincing an existing Norwegian business to hire me. So, the grand launch is this week - Murphy Arkitektur Periferi.. Just waiting for the website domain to come up and then there will be that tricky little detail of actually getting clients. Wish me luck!