We have been really busy this last week or so. Our kids home on holidays, christenings and birthday parties etc. Not much time to blog or knit. And when I do knit, I try working on the Mystery Stole, which I think may remain a mystery to me! I am having the worst time with this project. I must have taken it out and started again at least 10 times, I have unraveled multitudinous rows and am now about at the point where I am prepared to give in. I cannot look at the graph and get a picture of what it looks like in my mind. I think that is my biggest problem, because I cannot see a mistake as I make it and therefore cannot fix it as I am knitting it. I cannot pick up a dropped stitch when I have made an error in a row. The more errors I try to correct, the more stitches drop and the more rows I have to unravel. It is all the yarn overs and knit 2 together that I find so difficult to pick up. I think my main problem is that I cannot live with the tiniest mistake, so I try to fix it and then I start dropping stitche and so it goes! And I am concentrating really hard and counting stitches after every row and I still manage to screw things up. I am not a person who gives up easily, but this might be the thing that takes me down.
I am not posting a picture because it has another mistake, which I will again try to fix and if I end up undoing 5 rows or more, it goes in the garbage!
Bye bye for now!
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2 comments:
From what I've been reading you aren't the only one having a hard time with this project! Poor Knitdad threw his first one out (it had felted somewhat from the heat anyways). He restarted with a different yarn/lighter color, and it looks really nice.
Hope you can work it all out! Looking forward to seeing a picture of it.
how is the shawl coming along? Better I hope -- maybe it would be a good project for recouperating from your knee surgery?
I wish the Yarn Harlot's timing wasn't better for you -- It's a shame you will miss her!
Thanks for the compliment on my spinning efforts -- I am really enjoying it!
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