I am going to *cry*

[mousme]

I am not even one repeat into the pattern and there's already a mistake. Just... kill me now.

:::ETA:::

Thank God for stitch markers. I've found the mistake, and while I do have to rip back two rows, at LEAST the mistake isn't in the lace part of the pattern.

GAH.

Remind me why I do this?



:::Further ETA:::

Turns out I've been purling "wrong" this whole time. Who knew? Gah.

Comments

[rowen26.livejournal.com]

I am currently making an iPod cozy on tiny DPNs and I CANNOT make a mistake, because the patterns in IMPOSSIBLE to rip back and pick up.

So I have to restart the whole thing as soon as there's a mistake. Damn thing!

I sympathize!

[ai731.livejournal.com]

I sympathize too! I'm currently having a fabric disaster with some gingham that I bought thinking it was 100% cotton, but turned out not to be. Now it refuses to play nicely with the other fabric (which *is* 100% cotton)...

[chasingthenuns.livejournal.com]

for purling wrong the whole time you've done some fabulous knitting.

[owldaughter.livejournal.com]

Hear, hear.

[luvenditti.livejournal.com]

you do it for love!

Why Knit Lace?

[ankhorite.livejournal.com]

I've made it fifty years with nothin' but garter stitch.

Love the cartoon.

Re: Why Knit Lace?

[mousme.livejournal.com]

'Cause it's pretty, that's why. :)

Also, I am a glutton for punishment and enjoy challenges, when I'm not beating my head against the proverbial wall.

It's like a Zen excercise: chop wood, knit lace.

[toughlovemuse.livejournal.com]

Wrapping the yarn the wrong way on the purls, would be my guess? (This is what happened to me...)

[mousme.livejournal.com]

Yep. Deosil instead of widdershins. ;)

[owldaughter.livejournal.com]

I did it too. Which is why I had such a bitch of a time doing... whatever it was I was trying to do, because my tension is, erm, tense, and doing the wrap the other way made it even more tense.

[toughlovemuse.livejournal.com]

Tip: If you find that you've twisted a stitch (for example, by wrapping your yarn the wrong way on a purl) you can fix it on the next row by knitting that stitch into the back loop instead of knitting into the front.

[owldaughter.livejournal.com]

Knitting into the BACK of the loop? That's even scarier than purling. :P

[toughlovemuse.livejournal.com]

I find it easier than purling, actually. You're just inserting your needle in a different spot, wrapping as usual, bringing the yarn through...