Yes. I know. I have been knitting an awful long time to not know such a thing, and it embarrasses me to say so, but my error correcting has been a bit of bluffing up to this point.
I am not a perfectionist. Often I will wheedle my way around a mistake, if I think it won’t matter, or show…too much. I would call myself an B+/A- knitter if perfectionism is an A+ knitter.
So yeah. I spent 2 hours, but learned some tricks, so I thought it was worth the money. Timewise, it seemed a lot, but my class mates were less experienced than I, so perhaps they appreciated the time.
Will I be able to drop back 10 rows to correct a cable crossed the wrong way? Probably not so I would post about it here…
That day I also cast on Annis (mini-version, rav linky) in Textiles A Manos Painted Bangkok (100% silk) to wear with my ‘I birthed the bride’ dress. I thought it would be the perfect size for the amount of yarn in the skein, but I have cast off, and have way more than I expected left over. What to do? The shawl-ette is a shade small, even for an –ette, so I thought I could frog and re-knit a bit bigger. There are a couple of things that keep me from that, however. One is the way silk yarn can behave, and that is badly, all grabby and tangly, even if it knits like buttah. The other is the way shawls can eat yarn, and I may think I am adding just a smidge at the front end, but as the shawl is worked, that ‘just a smidge’ results in using more yarn than I ever dreamt, and than I could possibly have. And I end up short 12 inches from the end on the cast off row, and also, with stress lines from worrying about it through the last five rows, as I see the yarn disappear into the shawl…
So I think I am about ready to break yarn (yes, it’s true. I haven’t committed even to that at this point.), block it and call it good, leftover yarn be damned. Or just left over...
I have word from the far north that the required yarn is winging it’s way to Colorado that I need to finish up Eldest’s swimsuit cover up for the wedding trip. That’s a relief! I was not finding that anywhere else. Thank Bob for Ravelry and good hearted knitters with big stashes willing to trade their goods.
While knitting on the cover up during my flights to and from Philly, two or three flight attendants commented on my knitting. That is a new experience for me. I know others find knitters in interesting and far-flung places, even other Ravelers. I, alas, have not…until now. I even spied another knitter while waiting to board the return flight, and had the chance to speak to her, having lost my seat in the gate area when I left to visit the restroom. However, she was tinking back a her ‘first sock ever’, and we did not speak much beyond that as I did not want to break her concentration.
I am thoughtful that way.
Also incredibly lacking in conversational acumen.
2 comments:
The shawl, or -ette is lovely. It looks as if it is small enough to tuck in and bring next week!
Or thoughtful...whatever...
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