Ohhh yeah. But something seemed awry in general, minus the extra stitch. I found it difficult throughout to check for errors; making a bunch of holes in the material seems like mistakes to begin with. But it looks good, right? Let's go in for an aerial view:
Mmmm hmm. That's hot shawl action. Wait a tick. What's this?
I think the technical term for this is 'zigging when you should have zagged' It's also the cause of the oversized hole to the left of the zig). So I hyperventilated for a while, and then decided that I could probably just drop the stitches down and fix it. I still had a nagging sense of unease, though. I thought I'd been following the recipe pretty well, but this error was uniformly repeated. Looking for mistakes on this thing is like looking at one of those Magic Eye pictures, and all of a sudden it came into focus:
Crap. The whole pattern shifts to the left at the green line. So I invented some new words, or at least some new arrangements of words, and made a few suggestions to the shawl that are probably anatomically impossible. I threatened to punch Martha Waterman in the face:
Yarn post-mortem:
I'm a bit off my goal now...my shawl is half the yarn it used to be. Blurg!
I hope it's smooth sailing from now on!
ReplyDeleteThat happened to me before!
ReplyDeleteI have even less progress to report... I frogged the three rows I did and now I'm back on finishing my other projects before the shawl!!!
Oh, and I'm jennsquared :)
you are a brave woman. I probably would have just told myself "meh. it's handknit." and continued on. lol I'm not sure i've actually made anything PERFECT yet because of this attitude!
ReplyDeleteYou have always been a perfectionist...
ReplyDeleteI hate it when that happens. I hope it goes well now. I look forward to seeing its progress.
ReplyDeleteI hope you don't run into anymore problems on your shawl.
ReplyDeleteLike Sarah I'd have probably left it and made the stitch count right, but frogging was probably the right call. Fingers crossed there's no more problems, its looking really good.
ReplyDeleteI give you a lot of credit for frogging and starting again. It's looking good so far, though.
ReplyDeleteYep, a pretty pattern - darn you ! I just didn't order this book, and got Victorian Lace Today instead ....
ReplyDeleteYou post cracked me up, esp the photo of your fist!
ReplyDeleteExhibit #1 for why I hate lace.
ReplyDeleteYes, I had those glasses!
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