I am an acne pimple

“I am an acne pimple, lonely as can be.”
“Don’t cry pimple, I’ll bring you company”
“Hey fellow pimples, would three be a crowd?”
“All together pimples, sing real loud…
Nyah, nyah, nyah, nyah, nyah…”

That was a Clearasil commercial from my teens. I have worse acne now than I ever had at 13. My 14 year old son and I are keeping Clearasil in business. When is this stuff going to stop?

Speaking of things that are obvious and at times, annoying. What do you do about self-striping wool? If you knit some sweater patterns, the stripes on the arms are much wider than the stripes on the body. If you knit a triangular piece, the stripes at the bottom aren’t stripes any longer – they are rows of colour. I am planning a shawl of self striping yarn and have decided to use several balls at once as it gets obvious, matching the colours to form thicker stripes. This is different from the pooling you can get with hand painted yarn because you have to match the colours to get the striped effect. I don’t think it would bother me in sleeves, but it does on the main body. Someone’s got to think about these things.

I had to think about these things when knitting my first fair isle sweater. I had two teachers for that course, one who likes things to match perfectly, and one who was an anything goes person. That was an interesting combination. I found after awhile I would think through my questions and go to the one whose answer I wanted to hear.
Here is the finished product. Notice, I went with the anything goes teacher for colour questions; the sleeves are not mirror images and I decided my colours as I knitted. I went to the other one for technique advice. The best of both worlds.

Comments

[Karen]

I still get pimples/acne/zits and I am older than dirt. So I have no good advise for you there. I get pretty disgusted with it myself. I was complaining to my boss about it once and he said he wife complains that she still gets them and she is in her late 50's! That is something I did not want to hear, as I am sure you didn't now that I think about it. Ooops, sorry! ;)