Knitty types among you will understand. I am drinking peppermint and nettle tea, it’s rather nice. I am thinking about getting out some knitting needles and fiddling about with some purple cotton yarn I have lots of, to try and knit, very quickly, some sort of very light tie-front bolero thing. The sole purpose of this garment would be to cover the worst of the baggy, saggy flesh of my upper arms and back. I will be 40 this year and there’s no getting away from the fact that everything has, well, drooped.
But as always my knitting queue is quite long, and I’m already working on a garment almost exactly as described – but it uses quite a fine yarn and is taking a long time to grow. I could just use huge needles and make something really loose, that would take no time to knit. Or I could get on with the one I started.
Or screw them both, and continue knitting my sock, in a third attempt to make one for myself that won’t let me down at the last minute by felting in the wash.
Or spend the afternoon running up a knitted boob for a colleague. They only take a couple of hours, but that’s a couple of hours I could have been working on the sock. Or the bolero thing.
Ah, I so deeply resonate with your dilemma. If only, if only, the physical act of knitting somehow tightened the loose bits. Then a couple of the elements of the multi-option dilemma would be rendered immediately obsolete. It wouldn’t stop the socks felting though. Only using a Proper Sock Yarn and a 30 degree wash (so much better for the environment anyway) would go some way to sorting that problem, I fear. I speak as one with a large collection of small socks made of a material considerably denser than originally envisaged. Sigh.