Friday, September 30, 2011

Progressing Steadily Towards a Rhinebeck Project!

So, despite a mountain of work, 800 pages of reading (between all my classes combined) and a massive cold (when I cough, it sounds like the swamp-mobile in "The Rescuers") I've knit almost 2 inches on my Blackbird Shawlette! I'm really excited, because I feel like I may actually get to wear this at Rhinebeck.


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But, tonight, I noticed a problem.


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(Please pretend my iPhone photos are clear.  I lost my camera in Canada, still hoping someone will mail it to me.)

I have 3 stitches more than I'm supposed to.

Three.  Meaning I did just mess up, I had to have perpetrated a number of mess ups to end up with this number, since the pattern decreases by 4 stitches every other row.  So, I don't know.  I had just cast a lifeline so I had two options.

1.) Frog back to the lifeline (1 row) and re-knit another repeat of the plain section, but only decrease by 3 stitches instead of 4.
2.) Forget it ever happened, keep the 3 stitches and just knit them together later in the lace pattern.

Typically, I would be the #1 type of person, but today I just don't feel like fighting it.  They say that the Amish always make a mistake in their quilts, on purpose, to show that no human is perfect (only God.)  So this is what I'm calling it.  My "I'm not perfect" feature. 

6 comments:

  1. Don't you hate when that happens!!! I feel your pain. If its not noticeable then I would just decrease it.

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  2. Ugh, I hate when that happens. I take a cue from Bob Ross, and call it a 'happy accident'. It's going to be a beautiful shawl.
    Also, you feel better, ok!! =o -sends hugs-

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  3. I agree, if you can't see it go with option 2!

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  4. sorry about your cold...and the OOPS.
    I say frog back to the lifeline. So glad you put one in!
    It is a lovely color and you'll wear it to Rhineb eck

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  5. By the time you finish, you probably won't even be able to see this part. That's the beauty of big projects :-)

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  6. I thought that was the Shakers who did that with the intentional "mistake."

    And, by the way, your pictures are amazingly clear!;-)

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