03.27.09
Gotta love a man who cooks
It’s wonderful having a husband who can cook. We trade off on who’s got kitchen duty, and as I write this post, I can hear him working in the kitchen, frying fish and eggplant. Fried eggplant is one of my favorite things in the world! (Bet you can tell that I’m from New Orleans – we’re having two deep-fried foods in the same meal, and I’m not hyperventilating about it!)
Last night, my weekly knitting group consisted of just two of us, so I was actively involved in conversation all evening – I usually mostly just listen in, while I concentrate on my knitting, but with only two of us, I couldn’t sit on the sidelines. I brought my Modern Quilt Wrap to work on – it’s fairly simple, but does involve some row counting, which apparently was beyond me last night.
When I started knitting, I was about to change colors, so I cut the yarn from the previous color, joined the new color, and knitted five rows before I realized I had forgotten to do the decrease row twice. I ripped back five rows and re-knit them with decreases where they belonged.
Then I noticed that I had changed colors too soon – I had not knitted enough rows in the previous color. Theoretically, this shouldn’t matter, because who’d know, right? But I can be a little obsessive about my knitting, so I ripped it back again.
Since I had already cut the yarn from the previous color too short to get another row out of it, I joined a new strand and knitted the missing row, cut the yarn, joined the new color and knitted the five rows again. But something didn’t look right. That’s when I realized that I should have added three rows in the old color, not one.
So I ripped back the five rows a second time, ripped back the newly-added single row of the previous color, joined a new strand of the old color and knitted the three missing rows before the color change. I double-checked the pattern, and my stitch count was correct, row count was correct, all is good.
Joined the new color, knitted the five rows with decreases where they belong. This is the third time I’ve knit the same five rows in the new color, but who’s counting? Then I looked more closely at the pattern, and discovered that while I am knitting with color “I”, the pattern says I’m supposed to be using color “H”. Yep, I joined the wrong color. Three times.
Now, again, in theory, this shouldn’t matter – in a wrap of many colors, it wouldn’t be apparent if one color were out of place, but my slight obsessiveness kicked in again. So I ripped back to the old color one last time, joined the correct new color, and knitted the five rows again. Like I said, not enough progress to document it with a photo. Pitiful!
Knit, frog, knit, rip, arrgh…
Sue
