I'll be the first one to admit it - I make mistakes. Yep even after seven years of knitting and too-many-to-count projects, still I slip up from time to time. They pop up occasionally, I think, as a way of waking me up, or making sure I'm actually paying attention. It's a nice life lesson, no?
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First, some good news; my mom's friend got the Alpaca Baby Shawl in the mail and will be using said blanket for the charity auction as planned. Am excited and also a little nervous since this is the first project to be sold. Am really hoping it goes well ( Read more... )

Have been staring at this page for around ten minutes now, attempting to think of something to write. It's not working. I don't know what happened, but at some point between Christmas and the start of the new semester I lost all drive to knit. I didn't touch anything; no patterns, no yarn, no needles. Nothing was made.
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I only have myself to blame. After all, wasn't it I who said that my latest project is 'boring to blog about'? Well then, it's what I get to now have something about it to write about in my blog.
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Am still here. Am still knitting. Have been hesitant to post anything, mostly because I still have no pictures to share just yet. I tried to upload some, only to have my camera phone tell me the memory is full. *sigh* Very quickly, I bring you the major points of May ( Read more... )

Ever have one of those time periods where you have no desire to knit (or crochet, if that be your thing)? Ever just look at your stash or current projects and have no real yearning to work on anything? Even just the thought of doing so make you think, "Eh."?

That's where I am right now.

*pause*

Pray for me.

I don't know why, or how, but for some reason, the knitting mojo loves to go from good to bad, then sometimes, to downright ugly. There is no pattern for it, nor are there warning signs. No, it all happens in an instant - one moment you're zooming along, and the next it seems you can't make a purl stitch if your life depended on it.

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It's amazing how quickly this little pinwheel sweater has been knitting up. I started Friday, and today was about 3/4 the way finished with the body.

Then I noticed it. Waaaaay back about twenty rows, when I made my sleeve holes, I miscounted my sections. Instead of only four between them, there are five. Which means I need to go back.  I know how ( Read more... )

Woke up today to find the wrist swollen and sore. Have it wrapped for now. Am thinking if I steer clear of the knitting the next few days it will get better.

In good news, finished the first ribbed scarf and fetching. Piggle is almost done. I'm still on the crown shaping portion. I'm a little confused as to how to work it though. Here's what it says ( Read more... )

I was so close. Was on the final repeat of the Piggle lace pattern. After that, just the crown and it would be done.

Then I noticed the dropped stitch somewhere in the ribbing. Then I re-counted my stitches and noticed I was missing two, not just one. Then I couldn't find the dropped stitch.Then I tried to fix the error and made it worse. Then I ( Read more... )