Knitting Meets Life

…all mighty sweater designers.

Oh.  My.  Freaking.  God.

So, my knitting of the Mrs. Darcy has required some basic math.  Ratios, multiplication, blah blah blah.  And normally?  I am all for the math.  Seriously.  I drive my art teacher nuts because everything has to be mathematically balanced.  Photography teacher complimented me on my use of asymmetrical balance until I pointed out that it wasn’t really, because the overall size of the seven small flowers balanced the larger window, and that the whole picture was even (eight objects).  This is after she saw me using a level in the dark room to make sure my print wasn’t going to be tilted.

She diagnosed me with OCD and had me get her a coffee.

But anyway, math.  I knew I was going to have to do some work to make this pattern fit me in a way I deemed acceptable, but I did not foresee the pure evil that is a sleeve cap.  I had knit the armscythe the same way, with only a couple of minor adjustments, but I knew with my wonky gauge and stitch count, and the addition of my randomness to the armscythe that the previously written instructions were going to work.  I remembered that Knitty had published an article about such a thing, so I went and looked it up.

Now let me remind you, I like math.  I spent almost my whole summer in summer school taking a university level math course because I figured I’d have nothing better to do and I’d have to take it anyway.

So I pull up the article and see the word ‘trig’ and my little heart begins to flutter.  I love trig.  I informed my math teacher that I was going to marry trig and we were going to run away to live in British Columbia and everyone was going to have to right essays instead of doing math because I was not sharing.  So that was cool, I got all my measurements and such and everything was good.

And then calculus came up.  I have not yet done calculus, minus the little “And this is what you get to look forward to!”’s of my teachers.  Dear god I am now very, very afraid.  I dragged my sorry carcass through and ended up with the lazy sleeve cap, and I am damn proud of it.

In other news, I start my junior year of highschool on Tuesday.  Yay,