pride goeth before a fall

[morgi]

Saturday night I was knitting in the car on the way south from Chicago, working on the last pattern row of Chart A of Traveling Woman, all excited about having gotten so far, and discovered a dropped stitch and a weird loop about halfway down the pattern

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[tpau]

i neve ruse lifelines... i jsut carefully unravel to the intact row and then carefully pick up the stitches. i do breathing excersises first tho :)

[morgi]

I may try that tonight once I get home from Wednesday night Chinese food. With my white blocking mats as a backdrop to help see the stitches. (And if I unravel to a purl row I only have to worry about two yarn overs in easy places.)

[tpau]

oh yes always unravel to a non-pattern row or it will suck giant rocks.

the other thing i have found, whichwill not help you now, is that i count. every repeat, the whole thing on every non-pattern row. it may sound annoyign but it is zen-like and it means i am never more then a row or two away from the mistake...

[morgi]

That's the annoying part--I have been counting! (On the pattern rows, at least, I don't always count the return rows.) I think I know when this happened--I twitched wrong and had to pick a dropped stitch back up, but apparently I dropped two but didn't see it and somehow didn't catch the difference in stitches in that repeat. And didn't see the funky thing sticking out of the fabric. :P