It gets better
May 8th, 2007 at 9:43 pm (Works in progress)
Still no camera, I have absolutely no idea where it could’ve gone.
And now I found out something incredibly stupid I did: When I finished the mystery project, I was itching to cast on a new lace project. I’d bought yarn for the Swallowtail Shawl from the Fall 2006 Interweave Knits, and after seeing a shop model of the shawl at Borealis, I decided to cast it on. I breezed through the first sections of the pattern, the snowdrop lace parts, and on to the lily of the valley chart. I have been struggling with the nupps, so my progress has slowed significantly. Tonight while putting Arlo to bed, I realized that I’ve been *knitting* my wrong side rows instead of *purling* them. Oh good lord - I have so much work to rip out! I’d been wondering why it didn’t look like the shawl in the picture (which I like better, by the way), and couldn’t quite chalk it up to the fact I was knitting it at a looser gauge. Well, that revelation just hit me like a ton of bricks, I tell you. I am kind of angry with myself and mortified as well - I like to think I’m a pretty advanced knitter and to have missed such an obvious thing in the chart is a pretty big mistake.
I’m not sure I can rip this out myself - I may have to get help. And alcohol.
