Well, actually, I'm doing it for three reasons: I liked the picture of the tank in One Skein Knitting, which Cinda gave me for Christmas, I needed a mindless project for car trips and doctors' offices and there's nothing more mindless than rows and rows of stockinette, and finally, I had this yarn.You can't tell from the picture, but it's not yarn but tape. The orangey color is really a copper, and there's a yellow-green mixed in. The tape was part of a collection inspired by movie characters, and this one was called, I kid you not, Nurse Ratchet. I think I bought the stuff not just because it was on sale at a really good price but because of the name.
Last summer I knitted up a top, got almost done and noticed that it was too small and short. So I frogged the whole thing, and was left with some rather worn looking tape. Considering how little it cost, I should have chalked it up to experience and tossed it, but my New England ancestors wouldn't let me. (My grandma saved string and rubber bands.) So this summer, during those car rides etc. I've been working on the tank top.
This is not a pleasure. I've decided I don't like working on tape. It has no give and the needles catch in the open bits, and besides, the reused tape is just plain ratty.
On the other hand, I like the copper and puke green mixture. And it drapes rather nicely. And the pattern is certainly mindless.
Reminder to myself, and resolution: My grandma also used to make quilts out of remnants she got from a men's underwear factory. Some family traditions should die. I promise not to buy yarn just because it's on sale (except at Webs).
