Pluses and minuses

[badseed1980]

+ Had a great time plotting veil madness with nepenthe01 and friend last night.

+ When I got home, I finished the last row of one chart and then got started on the final chart for my shawl. I was doing just great, and had no moments of, "Wait, did I miss a stitch/repeat/yarn over?"

- Then, after that first row of the new chart, I realized that I had been doing the center portion of the shawl exactly the same way for the entirety of the last chart. I though the center part didn't change until the new chart. Turns out it changed 10 rows back from where I am now. No, I can't just leave it, because it was supposed to be getting wider all along. I can't increase that much all at once to catch up, and if I don't get to the width I'm supposed to be at, the shawl won't be big enough. I have to undo back several lifelines. CRAP. This will be a serious pain because of all the beads. It's hard to hold onto all of them when I rip out rows on this shawl. I inevitably lose a bunch. Not a big deal since I have way more than I need, but it can be messy. And by the way, with the size of these rows and the complexity of them (because of the beading, primarily) this means that AFTER I have ripped stuff out, put it back on the needles and unknitted two additional rows, I have about 4-5 hours of straight knitting to get back to where I am now. GRR.

+ At least I'll probably have an opportunity to get a lot of work done on the shawl at my parents' house this weekend. I haven't been to visit them by myself when my sister wasn't also there in a long time. This'll be restful, though. I kind of need it. My vacation was fairly eventful, and I need UNeventful for a weekend.

+ And in case I haven't said it in a while, I have the BEST PARENTS EVER. They are taking me to see Spamalot this spring! :D How cool is that?

Comments

[miss-lisa-ma.livejournal.com]

Spamalot? Those are cool parents, indeed :-D

[she-of-emeralds.livejournal.com]

Sorry about the shawl! Best o' luck with the redoing. Me, I'm going to have to frog about 14 inches of a scarf--I like the look of the pattern but I just cannot get a handle on doing it. Instead I will make a different scarf with same yarn, with a pattern that I've made before and love, that's pretty easy. Plus I've made the same pattern (various colors) for Mom, sis and niece, so we can all be a matched set. I'll aim to finish it before Thanksgiving, next time I'll see them all together.