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I thought I’d made it… and then knitting disaster

  • Knitting

I’m a math major. Reporting is part of my job. But apparently I can’t math. Slip 10 stitches said the instructions… and yet somehow I slipped 13 and dropped a stitch. All at the beginning of the row. I figured out something was wrong only when I was on the last of 26 never-freaking-ending repeats. And now I have to do EVERY. SINGLE. ONE. again.

Close up of a light purple knitted short row triangle on a shawl in green, pink, orange, and light purple

Oh… and each repeat is a separate little bit of yarn. I don’t want to rip it all back in one go and have 25 little tiny balls of yarn floating around. So I’m undoing them one at a time and re-knitting just that one in the proper place.

Now, you know I love some short rows. I especially love what they can do for shaping clothing. And they can produce some dang-clever effects in shawls and other items. But these are little short row triangles where you break the yarn after each one and you’re turning this big-ole shawl over right side to wrong side over and over and over again on these little tiny rows. I detest lots of actually short-in-length rows. And when they are attached to a large item… the love does not grow.

A shawl being knit in dark “shire” green, and sunset oranges, pinks, and pale purple. On the needles are a bunch of short row triangles in the purple, creating a “puffed” look along the cord of the circular needle.

But I’m going to get started on this now so I don’t put this in time out. I don’t want to lose momentum. I will persevere.