Very. Crabby.
In Tangled Yoke, every purl row is straight purling except row six, which contains two spots where there is a 5 in 1 increase. I purled that row without looking at the chart and then spent hours trying to figure out why I was short on stitches when I got to the centre of row 7. Then I finally moved the sticky note that I was using to track my place on the chart I saw the little %#$!!X*Z?!! "5-in-one" symbol. Trying not to focus on how annoying ripping back was, I absent mindedly removed a few - not all - but a few markers that were helping me check my work. Now I have to sort out (again) where I am (Other than in a very dark "place" that only other knitter's might imagine)
The Fair Isle has an issue related to the number of stitches and how it affects pattern as well. I only discovered this particular issue after several others were resolved that arose from my mixing medium sized sleeves with a large sized body. (Really, honestly, lets all admit we saw that one coming a mile away when I happily chirped that I could handle the discrepancy didn't we?!)
I do apologize for repeating myself but %#$!!X*Z?!!
So right now its sunny rather than the pouring rain the fore cast told us to expect so I'm going to go on my power walk during which I hope the sunshine will help me climb out of the knitting induced darkness enveloping my brain.
Thank you for enduring my rant!
9 comments:
I HATE unknitting to fix a problem, but I have even more that horrible feeling when the numbers just don't add up. Especially as you get closer and closer to being finished.
Hopefully today is a better day.
I'm so $%#@& with you.
that's bloody annoying, it's bad enough when one thing isn't working but when all your projects rebel it's downright horrible! I hope you get it sorted soon and it's plain sailing from there on out!
Blerg. I hate when that happens. I'm working on a pair of mitts now and had the same problem except the pattern completely mixed up the hands. So unless I had a thumb growing out of the back of my hand I don't think it would work. Good luck!
My tangled yoke is on a time out. I messed up on the chart somewhere and started to pick it out but then hid it in the closet. I should dig it out since it is SOOOOO close to being done.
I feel your pain:)
I know how you feel. I am knitting kilt hose for my nephew, in 9th grade. Last time I saw his bare legs was 2 years ago--I should have expected him to have grown. Now,these socks are very intricately cabled and shaped to fit the calf. I really enjoy a knitting challenge, so I knit happily away, and when I got to the ankle I tried them on--too snug. Nephew came for a visit (I hoped he would be a skinny-legged lad. But no, too tight. So I put on a brave face, and said that frogging is part of knitting--pas de problème. Yesterday I frogged, and am back where I was, only bigger. Good feeling when it turns out right. I should have saved this for a blog post. I will be reading your blog regularly. o:)
...and we do this for fun and relaxation!
Good luck with instilling some discipline into your rebellious projects.
I know just how you feel. I've just spent the evening finishing a sock and then having to unravel the toe because the foot isn't long enough! The fact that all these errors seem so avoidable in retrospect just makes it worse. Good luck with the fixing up.
we've all been there. Not that it makes it easier to bear, but at least we can commiserate...
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