Knitting and Myers-Briggs
If you've ever wandered into a career center or been part of a (how shall I put it delicately?) non-functional work team, you've probably taken the Myers-Briggs Personality Inventory.
Based on Jungian typology--I think it's based on Jungian typology, anyway--the MBPI divides human personality and behavior into four opposing categories. One is either an introvert or an extrovert (I or E); one grasps the world intuitively or through sensation (N or S); is a thinker or feeler (T or F); a judger or perceiver (J or P).
I'm an ENFP. We're the flakes on the planet. This is great for creativity, ideas pop out of us like Jack-in-the-boxes on crack. This is very bad for adhering to systems and following lock-step instructions. Case in point: This weekend I was about to stitch up my darling little wrap (FCEK, Spring 2003), when I realized I had knit two (TWO!) left sides. Unprintable, the language that came out of me.
How could this happen? Well...instead of following FCEK's cogent instructions, I decided that the top's seed stitch border showed to better advantage on the wrong side of the garment, in this instance, the stocking stitch side. With my heathery silk, the reverse stocking stitch didn't provide enough contrast to the seed stitch hems. The right side became the wrong side, the right side became the left side, well you can see how a fliberty-gibbet like me might get confused.
Suffice it to say, I reknit a new right side like a fiend over the weekend. FO to come on Tuesday or Wednesday pending seaming and blocking.
Any bright ideas on how to block silk?
8:18:55 AM 
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