THE HAT, YET AGAIN
Yesterday I learned two valuable lessons. They are as follows:
1. If, by chance, through one's own stupidity, one does not take one's blood-pressure pills for three fricking days and ends up feeling panicky and as if in the throes of massive PMS... one should have both a caring friend nearby and a lot of chocolate. I had the first but not the second, luckily for me; I can manage without the second. No more doing that, though; I don't want to have a stroke, thankyouverymuch, and it was not fun at all.
2. When frogging, keep the cats away. I'm not sure *how* many times I had to tug my yarn out of Bob's teeth.
**sigh**
The Hat has been frogged down to an acceptable level, about 3.5" above the border. And I've found a pattern whose crown instructions ought to work nicely-- it's one I'd actually started on before using some yarn that looked great outside the pattern but terrible when knitted. It's called a 'Fake Isle' pattern and actually DOES use Noro Kureyon yarn; the crown's knitted in a kind of radial 8-petaled flower with (this is the important bit) the decreases built into the design. Should work like crazy; I've ended the original pattern, knitted a solid row of Color!A, am knitting a row of Color!B and then charging into the design. Am keeping my fingers crossed; this SHOULD work, and I should end up with a hat that doesn't look like something done by a dyslexic colorblind thumbless gradeschooler.
Or so I'm hoping...
1. If, by chance, through one's own stupidity, one does not take one's blood-pressure pills for three fricking days and ends up feeling panicky and as if in the throes of massive PMS... one should have both a caring friend nearby and a lot of chocolate. I had the first but not the second, luckily for me; I can manage without the second. No more doing that, though; I don't want to have a stroke, thankyouverymuch, and it was not fun at all.
2. When frogging, keep the cats away. I'm not sure *how* many times I had to tug my yarn out of Bob's teeth.
**sigh**
The Hat has been frogged down to an acceptable level, about 3.5" above the border. And I've found a pattern whose crown instructions ought to work nicely-- it's one I'd actually started on before using some yarn that looked great outside the pattern but terrible when knitted. It's called a 'Fake Isle' pattern and actually DOES use Noro Kureyon yarn; the crown's knitted in a kind of radial 8-petaled flower with (this is the important bit) the decreases built into the design. Should work like crazy; I've ended the original pattern, knitted a solid row of Color!A, am knitting a row of Color!B and then charging into the design. Am keeping my fingers crossed; this SHOULD work, and I should end up with a hat that doesn't look like something done by a dyslexic colorblind thumbless gradeschooler.
Or so I'm hoping...