Wednesday, August 09, 2006

Update

11:30 pm - Tonight I unknitted several rows to get back to 213 stitches (row 2 of the pattern.) Then I knitted a row and did row 3 of the pattern which should have been 215 stitches. It wasn't. It was 214 stitches. I went to the beginning of the row and counted off the pattern stitches - I'd missed a yarn over about halfway through the row. So I unknitted to that point, reknitted the row - 215 stitches. This is good, except it's where I started last night. Anyway I'm ready to do row 1, maybe tomorrow. The earrings really help in counting, I hook one on at every 50th stitch.

This shawl is showing me how much my concentration slips. In past rows I have missed yarn overs; I have dropped stitches; I have knitted 4 instead of 3 in the pattern. And yet at the time I felt like I was paying attention! Of course the longer the row gets, the easier it is for my mind to slip away for just a second also.

1 comment:

May said...

I know how fustrating something like this can be. I've knit some items with 400+ stitches in one row and not only is it painful to just about sit for half hour to get one row done, it's easy to miscount. I find ring counters (like earrings) help a lot. I also tend mark every 50 as well and recount the last 50 every time I get to a new marker. Painful, but worth it especially when it saves me from frogging it and redoing....Good luck with it. I'm sure it'll work up well really soon.