a question for my fellow knitters:
Feb. 1st, 2009 11:12 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mouse_rants(well, crafters in general, i guess, but i'm knitting at the moment):
how much of a perfectionist are you, with the stuff you make?
at the moment, i am making myself a summer shawlette (lovely pattern, by the way; i've actually made one already and liked it so much i decided to make a second - it's a free download, but you may have to sign up for the site).
anyway, i'm making this shawlette, and i've made 2 mistakes in it. neither one is major - _i_ can see them, but i doubt anyone half-way across the room would be stopped in their tracks by them. in both cases, i didn't notice them until several rows on; both involved a yo s2kp2 yo (which is not as bad as it sounds, really, but the yos make it a little complicated, for me anyway, to tear back, which is what i would have had to do). so anyway - in both cases, i left the mistakes.
so now i'm wondering - am i just being unforgivably lazy? i think, if i were making it for someone else, i would fix them...but then again, maybe i wouldn't. i always tell beginning ceramic students that imperfections are fine, it's what shows the thing is made by hand rather than a machine.
so - where do you all stand on leaving in glitches?
how much of a perfectionist are you, with the stuff you make?
at the moment, i am making myself a summer shawlette (lovely pattern, by the way; i've actually made one already and liked it so much i decided to make a second - it's a free download, but you may have to sign up for the site).
anyway, i'm making this shawlette, and i've made 2 mistakes in it. neither one is major - _i_ can see them, but i doubt anyone half-way across the room would be stopped in their tracks by them. in both cases, i didn't notice them until several rows on; both involved a yo s2kp2 yo (which is not as bad as it sounds, really, but the yos make it a little complicated, for me anyway, to tear back, which is what i would have had to do). so anyway - in both cases, i left the mistakes.
so now i'm wondering - am i just being unforgivably lazy? i think, if i were making it for someone else, i would fix them...but then again, maybe i wouldn't. i always tell beginning ceramic students that imperfections are fine, it's what shows the thing is made by hand rather than a machine.
so - where do you all stand on leaving in glitches?
