One of the blogs I read posted this little piece about knitting Dugly-Ucks. I admit it. I have some and I’ve ignored them. Hid them even. Piling the new sock yarn on top of them, so that it’s easy to forget that for a brief sock-yarn-buying-crazed moment I lost my mind. OK, I lost it more than once, but you see, when I’m staring at sock yarn I get … temporary amnesia (insanity, maybe?). I don’t judge the sock yarn as pretty or ugly. I just toss it in that convenient shopping cart (real or virtual). Only then when I enter the Secret Sacred Stash Room to carefully tuck away the treasured acquisition do I wonder, “What was I thinking?”
I’ve since made it my mission to knit all those Dugly-Ucks and decided to keep it very simple. No deadline and nothing fancy. Just plain Vanilla, so I don’t have to look at it while watching movies, like Transformers or 300. And I won’t torture you by writing a separate post on them. Just to give you (and I) a good laugh, I’ll post an obligatory finished Dugly-Uck pic … too bad I can’t wave a magic knitting needle and chant a “Bippity, Boppity Boo.”
Any day now the Journal of the American Medical Association will publish that article on The Dugly-Uck Syndrome. Yup … any day.
ETA: Here are the photos and specs of my Dugly-Ucks :)
Pattern: My own
Yarn: Gedifra Socks Color 4212
Needles: Addi circs (2.5 mm)
Gauge: 8 SPI
Specs: Toe-up (64 sts); round toe, band heel with garter st edge
Pattern: My own
Yarn: Regia Marrakesch 5494
Needles: Addi circs (2.5 mm)
Gauge: 8 SPI
Specs: Toe-up (64 sts); star toe, band heel
4 responses so far ↓
bruisinraincloud // 11.04.2007 at 20:44 |
I wish that I could knit that nicely!
great job!!!
Dave // 11.05.2007 at 00:33 |
Those aren’t so Dugly! A little, ummm, loud, perhaps .. or … ummm … energetic? Good job on getting them done!
Eva-Liese // 11.08.2007 at 19:36 |
Hi Dina! It was nice meeting you, too. Meanwhile I visited the Kundert Spindles Site – and since then have been saying to myself: “No, Eva, you don’t want to buy a new spindle – you prefer to build your own spindles – you want to improve your own spindle-making – you don’t need to buy a spindle…..” etc. Hope this Mantra will help ;-)
But they are really beautiful!
“Secret Sacred Stash Room” – *lol* :-)
Dina // 11.14.2007 at 15:11 |
bruisinraincloud: Thank you. You knit just fine :)
Dave: Perhaps dugly is in the eye of the beholder? I’m still not finished with my Dugly-Ucks … I actually dug out two more balls … yikes!
Eva-Liese: Hallo, Eva! It was nice meeting you, too. Those Kunderts are beautiful and I especially love the inlaid woodwork. You must bring your spindle at the next Meetup … what are your plans for your next spindle?
Rock thinks I should have a Mantra like that, but I could think of one for him: “I do not need another 16V turbo engine. I do not need another 16V turbo engine….”