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.
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.
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.