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Monday, June 25, 2012

Clue #1 Complete!

Let me tell you about the lace knitting week I've had.  It's been terrible.  I'm working on knitting up a new lace design which is very lacey and has lots of stitches.  At the end of Part A of the shawl I have 458 stitches (or there about), so it's pretty big.  I start Part B and am plugging away until row 6 when I see what looks like a bunch of dropped stitches.  Upon closer inspection it is probably about 3 to 5 dropped stitches that have unraveled to the lifeline.  I take a deep breath and start trying to put the pieces back together.  After fiddling with it a bit, I have it somewhat back together.  I'm feeling okay about it, but I'm not feeling great.  In the end I decide to rip it out because this is a sample of the pattern (just a sample for me but nonetheless a sample) and I wanted it to be right.  If this was a shawl I was just knitting to knit, then I would have just gone on with my fix and been happy with it.  

Then I'm knitting another shawl, actually a lace weight En Fuego Shawl, and the cat jumps up to where I'm knitting.  Well, I got startled and pulled my hands apart and thus dropped a bunch of stitches.  This one I couldn't fix and believe me I tried.  In the end I ripped back to my lifeline and went on with the knitting.  Mind you that these two incidents happened within days of each other.  You'd think that all this ripping would put me off from lace, but I never think about it that way.  Sure, I'm kinda mad at the time, but it's just how it goes.  

If you thought that was the end of my lace woes, then you'd be wrong.  I don't blame you for thinking it was the end because after all that even I thought that I was done.  I'd paid my lace dues for the year or at least a couple of months.  What else could go wrong and how many lace projects do I have going?  After all the drama of my ripping, picking up stitches and re-knitting sections, I thought it would be a good idea to work on my mystery shawl.  So, I pick that up and start knitting away.  I've almost completed a row (I'm talking like 25 stitches from the end) and since this is a bottom up shawl that means I have 283 stitches in the row and I realize that I've been knitting the wrong row.  I'm suppose to be knitting Row 3 and instead I've knit Row 1.  Ugh!!!  You know what I do next, nope not rip, but instead I do what I call "knitting backwards".  This is where I essentially undo each stitch back to the beginning of the row. 
Cast-on completed!
They say that bad things happen in threes and I'm hoping that they are right.  I've since gone on to complete the mystery shawl Clue #1 without any further problems.  I'm happy with how it is turning out and looking forward to the next clue coming out tomorrow.  Actually, I'm happy with how all my lace projects are going despite the difficulties they've given me this past week.  Here's hoping that this week's lace knitting goes smoothly.
Clue #1 completed!

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