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My Personal Knitting Fantasies

*  That just once I find a project that actually takes less  time than I think it will *  That after 100+ hours of knitting, I'll look exactly like the 12-year-old model in the knitting magazine does while wearing the sweater *  That I can block something without kitty assistance *  That 5 years from now no one will even remember what the word "errata" means because editors have actually started editing patterns before publishing *  That if someone publishes a bad or confusing pattern, every knitter who has attempted it gets to line up and give the author one of those top-of-the-head knuckle-thumps that all older siblings learned how to do. *  That knitting would burn as many calories as cross country skiing *  To see a yarn label that actually says "Crappy yarn that will pill like crazy and has big freaking knots that we tied using a blender in every single skein" *  That just once, when someone tells me that they "could never"...