I've been knitting my poor little hands into a freak-out (aka they're now feverish, a little swollen, and angry at me). While I know I probably should give them some rest, I can't help but enjoy knitting (and crocheting which seems to be a little easier on my joints). Yesterday, I ran into a snag after I had completed a good amount of work--I was using the wrong stitch. Instead of knitting, I was purling. I know you wouldn't think that it would make that big of a difference, but you could obviously see a line where I had been doing it right and then when I switched stitches. Plus upon further inspection, I had dropped at least one crucial stitch that could possibly have unraveled down the whole length of the scarf. I'm not sure what I did wrong, but obviously it was something. So I "frogged" which just means that I took the whole thing apart and then picked up a row like 50-60 rows down (maybe that's an exaggeration, maybe it's not; there was a ton of yarn). I've tried this before and not done so well. The tricky part is picking the stitches back up and the scarf pattern included a yarn over after every stitch so I had to not only pick up the loop it made I had to make sure to pick up the correct extra yarn. This time I did really well. I'll post a picture of the completed scarf once I'm finished. It's not perfect, but it's the thought that counts, right?
Title: "Carry Me Home" by Hey Rosetta!
Labels: Christmas Music, Knitting
