Last week I caught a gorgeous ray of sunshine hanging out on the now-completed back of Ursa, and you can also peek at the progress I had made on the two fronts, which I'm doing simultaneously. I say "had made", because I have a problem. It occurs when I'm not knitting on something every day, and think I'm smarter than I am. I was knitting along and watching the latest episode of Downton Abbey last Sunday (by the way, OMG Downton Abbey), and noticed that I had somehow forgotten to do the decreases on the inside edge of one of the fronts. And, now that I looked at it, I had missed the corresponding decrease on the other edge! How silly of me. Perhaps I can ladder down and fix it, and shift the extra yarn over to the edge where it'll be hidden in the seam? Well, no, now it looks like the dog's been chewing on it. Sigh. Oh well, nothing for it; I suppose I'll start by ripping out the other front. Off the needles it comes!
. . . Seven ripped rows later, I remembered I wasn't supposed to do any decreases on the inside edges.
. . . Seven ripped rows later, I remembered I wasn't supposed to do any decreases on the inside edges.
At least the back's really pretty. :)
It's been quite a week for knitting fails-- and I have given up knitting anything important during Downton Abbey.
ReplyDeleteAgreed! I am sticking to straight stockinette when it's Downton Abbey time. And knitting fail solidarity!
DeleteOh dear ... what frustrations you've had. I knit only the simplest of projects during Downton Abbey. Garter-stitch shawls is about the only thing I can handle as I'm so besotted!
ReplyDeleteI'm rewatching the first season again and I'm usually about twenty minutes in to each episode when I realized that my hands have stopped moving mid-stitch. :)
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