Knit, tink, knit, tink, ARGH!
October 25th, 2005 at 8:51 am (kids-sweaters)
Do you ever have one of those days/rows? I was working merrily along on the cow/pig/sheep sweater, and was starting a new pattern. Two rows of one color, then add in another color. 5 grey, 5 yellow, 1 grey, 5 yellow, repeat. Sounds easy? HA!
240 stitches around, and I get to the end of the row. I find out that I’m not in the correct place to end the row. Good thing I sanity check at the end of the row. I start looking back and realize I’ve added 6 yellow in one place, right before the halfway point. So I un-knit all the way back there. Which takes quite a bit of time as it was around 160 stitches to unknit. Then I move forward again, glad that I’ve found the problem and there won’t be a funny looking cow. I get to the end of the row, and again I’m not in the correct place in the pattern.
A Huuuuuge sigh. I look back at what I’ve knit. Well, I don’t have to go back quite as far, but almost halfway. Another 100 stitches to un-knit. I had put two 1 greys in a row, instead of alternating 1 grey and 5 greys.
After unknitting this second time, my bus ride is almost over at this point (and it’s a damn good thing I missed the faster bus, I really needed the extra knitting time today). I start forward. And then realize I’ve done the same thing again, but luckily caught it before getting too far. I only had to un-knit about 5 stitches. Then I did it AGAIN. I was seriously ready to chuck the thing at this point.
I finished the row, and thank the knitting-powers-that-be that I actually came out right on the pattern this time. I don’t think I would have ripped back again. I would have just left the error in and had a funny looking cow.
No pictures of this event; how interesting is it to see it looking almost exactly like it did when I started? :)
I did manage to get almost through the whole next row before the bus ride was over. I also realized why I like to wrap my yarns one way and not the other. It’ll make a good blog entry, but needs lots of pictures for explanation.
Speaking of pictures - for those who have suffered this far into my non-picture post. I do have other pictures lined up for this week. I need help deciding what lace project to knit next with my beautiful Helen’s lace weight yarn from Lorna’s Laces.
Joanne said,
October 25th, 2005 at 12:24 pm
You’re very brave to be doing this kind of knitting on the bus! I’m looking forward to future pictures. By the way, I got your email and I’m sure I was doing things wrong. Will try again tomorrow (teaching tonight). Thanks!
Wanda said,
October 26th, 2005 at 8:48 am
That’s great you’re able to knit on the bus. It sounds like yesterday was a bad day for knitting, but at least you were able to correct it before you got to work and then on the ride home, nothing but knit, right?
Mom said,
October 27th, 2005 at 5:37 pm
You can borrow my term I use when I have to “unweave” my Navajo work. . . “retroweaving” and yours would be “retroknitting!” When I rode the bus to work, I would put on my Walkman and immediately take a nap. Only once did I almost sleep past my bus stop to get off. =)