I’ve been working hard on my legwarmers, not so much out of abstract dedication to finishing a project as because it’s gotten cold again and man, I could really use them!
I was feeling pretty happy on Monday that I was ready to start the decreases down the calf when I noticed something off. The front cable wasn’t at the point it should be – I seemed to be ahead of where I should be. Had I miscounted how many rows I’d completed? But the back cable seemed right.
So I dropped back the from cable a chunk to where maybe I’d skipped a couple rows:
I started working it back up, but as I counted the row left to repair, I realized I was going to end up in the same (wrong) place again.
I took a closer look. And realized with horror that my mistake was in only the second repeat of the cable – over 24 rows back. I was faced with a choice – drop back to repair it, rip out most of my leg warmer or accept it.
I couldn’t accept it – my row counts would be off the rest of the way and this would drive me nuts, even if nobody would be able to see the mistake.
And ripping out more than half my work was a bit hard to accept as well.
So yeah, I dropped down some 24 rows back and starting working my way back up.
The locking stitch markers are there to bundle together repeats and half repeats of the cable pattern so I could make sure I stay on track and don’t knit a row with the wrong piece of yarn or miss a row again.
It took most of an evening, but it’s all fixed and after a couple more days’ knitting, I’m well past the point of error:
