After completing the home improvement project Saturday, Wonderful Guy and I cleaned up with some odd and ends around the house. We capped off the evening with ‘HP and The Order of the Phoenix’ from Netflix. I settled in with some knitting, first some rounds on the bebe sockee, then a repeat on the Forest Canopy Shawl. Apparently, I was too tired, and/or had one eye cast to the movie, and maybe both, because I irretrievably messed up my knitting on the shawl. There was no correcting, and there was no letting it go, even for this less-than-a-perfectionist knitter, as this was some bad messing up indeed. Because of the nature of the pattern, and the fact that I had not used the suggested lifelines for such a case, it appeared that a complete frogging might be in order. With that in mind, I put the knitting down, and went to bed, a bit downcast, I might add.
Last evening, as I started the ripping, it came to mind the ‘every other’ rows that were straight purl, and the beginning of each repeat that is an almost straight knit row. I should be able to string my stitches back on the needles easily enough without worrying about YOs, dropped stitches, and other such problems at one of these rows, right? And that is what I tried. I completed one repeat after doing so, and was successful, with only a few twisted stitches. I frogged back far enough to correct a mistake I had made back aways, so I am repeating some knitting, but I think I will have a better piece for it.
THEN I discovered Sunday afternoon, on the bebe sockee that I had dropped a stitched, so there was some frogging, picking up, and continuing there. Oh, the joy of picking up stitches knitted with a size one needle. My old eyes were straining for this task. (Note to self: Avoid this situation in the future at all costs….or…shock horror… maybe get some reading glasses? Nah…..)
Anyway, both projects are back on track. I have learned…something….I suppose…but I already knew I wasn’t perfect!
It’s St. Pat’s Day, Mid-March, almost spring in Colorado, and we had six inches of snow on the ground this morning! (Of course, by mid-week it will be back close to 60F.) This morning it was a fairyland, a heavy snow lying on the tree branches, still with no breeze. It won’t last long, was not a hindrance for the morning commute, and will provide some good moisture to the baby green shoots poking up their little heads. It’s all good!
Last evening, as I started the ripping, it came to mind the ‘every other’ rows that were straight purl, and the beginning of each repeat that is an almost straight knit row. I should be able to string my stitches back on the needles easily enough without worrying about YOs, dropped stitches, and other such problems at one of these rows, right? And that is what I tried. I completed one repeat after doing so, and was successful, with only a few twisted stitches. I frogged back far enough to correct a mistake I had made back aways, so I am repeating some knitting, but I think I will have a better piece for it.
THEN I discovered Sunday afternoon, on the bebe sockee that I had dropped a stitched, so there was some frogging, picking up, and continuing there. Oh, the joy of picking up stitches knitted with a size one needle. My old eyes were straining for this task. (Note to self: Avoid this situation in the future at all costs….or…shock horror… maybe get some reading glasses? Nah…..)
Anyway, both projects are back on track. I have learned…something….I suppose…but I already knew I wasn’t perfect!
It’s St. Pat’s Day, Mid-March, almost spring in Colorado, and we had six inches of snow on the ground this morning! (Of course, by mid-week it will be back close to 60F.) This morning it was a fairyland, a heavy snow lying on the tree branches, still with no breeze. It won’t last long, was not a hindrance for the morning commute, and will provide some good moisture to the baby green shoots poking up their little heads. It’s all good! 
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