Project , Oh Project
Project, oh project, I hate you, you stink
I wish I could wash you away in the sink.
If only a bomb would explode you to bits
Project, oh project, you’re giving me fits.
I’d rather take baths with a steek-ripping shark,
Or shear a woolly mammoth, alone in the dark.
Eat spinach and liver, pet ten porcupines,
Than tackle this shawl, with a boring design.
Project, oh project, you’re last on my list,
If you weren’t a gift, you wouldn’t even exist.
If I could just bind you off, it would tickle me pink.
Project, oh project, I hate you, you stink.
A shameless ripoff of a poem I memorized in childhood. Poet unknown. Maybe Shel Silverstein or Jack Prelutsky?
All She Wants To Do Is Knit 
Love it! We’ll call you Shel II, it really does sound like his wonderful poems! 😎 This really starts my day laughing like crazy!
Good. It made me feel better to write it too 😉
THAT deserves a rousing round of applause!
LOVE it! 🙂 Hahahahaha!
You probably know that in the “olden days,” many a spinner etc. sang little ditties to keep up heir spirits! I love your take on this!
Ha, ha. ha, ha, ha! My sentiments EXACTLY (sometimes).
LOL!
I know exactly what you mean! I recently finished a scarf that took me SIX years to get done. So happy I never have to look at the darn thing again.
Was yours intended to be a gift too? Honestly, if this project wasn’t a gift it would have been frogged long ago. I can think of so many more rewarding uses for this yarn, which I actually like a lot.
It actually wasn’t. I just really liked the yarn because it was so soft and fuzzy, different from other yarns I had. I never frogged it because I didn’t know what else to do with it (it was so different). I grew to hate that orange ball of fuzz and even shoved the green lot I have to the bottom of one of my bins so I don’t have to look at that type of yarn either. I vowed that when I eventually do pull it back out, I’m using larger needles to get it done faster.
I’ve got some green boucle yarn like that in my stash. It’s awful and acrylicky, but I really like the color. Never seen anything like it.
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