Sunday, July 30, 2006

Poof!

All that work. Up in smoke. I spent the entire day yesterday working on the second half of the baby blanket. ALL day! I was about 3/4 finished with the grafting when I realized I couldn't finish. Somehow, I am missing about 20 stitches. Where did they go? I've spent the morning trying to find them. They are just gone. I counted the bottom of each side: fine. I counted the edges: fine. I counted the middle: wrong. The half I worked on yesterday has less stitches than the one I finished weeks ago, even though I started with the same number of stitches. How do you lose 20 stitches? I can't find anywhere where I've decreased. I looked at every row. I can't fix my mistake if I don't know what the problem is. So. What do I do? I guess I'll let the blanket sit for a week or so, then frog it and make it something else.

In better news, I finished a hat for a friend of a friend's preemie (he weighs less than three pounds). I included a hand-wound ball of yarn for scale. I used Classic Elite Premier and two size 6 circulars. I think I may make a red one out of Cascade Pima Tencel (which is pretty much the same as the Premier) as a soothing, relaxing, easy project that I can't get wrong. Knock on wood.

Next, I'm going to make an entrelac washcloth. I've wanted to try entrelac for a while and this seems like an easy way to learn the basics. The pattern is here (via 1870 Pearl).

4 comments:

jennifer said...

Strange that you would choose the words "poof. up in smoke." in this post considering your previous post about burning children in melting blankets. I was very nervous to read on! But alas, I did, and all is well in baby knitting. Thank goodness.

TK said...

You are so right. I wasn't thinking. But I wouldn't say all is well is baby knitting. Things went so very wrong! No fire, thank goodness.

Lynn said...

oh man, does that suck. well... maybe you can frog the 2nd side halfway and then try to salvage?

i'm interested in the entrelac pattern you found. sounds fabulous! maybe i can do that with my leftover hemp...

jennifer said...

Oh wow!!! I feel like I've won the lotto. I didn't know that the baby kimono was being sent to my house. Thank you. It looks great. You should sell the pattern.