Aaaaaah!

So there I am, knitting along happily as I work on my latest baby blanket (SERIOUSLY, PEOPLE, STOP HAVING BABIES FOR A MINUTE SO I CAN CATCH UP!), using my shiny new knitting needles from Knit Picks, when my shiny new interchangeable knitting needle came unscrewed from its cable and dumped a bunch of stitches into the ether.

GAH!

Some quick thinking rescued them, but let me tell you, that was NOT good for my blood pressure. I shall have to watch out for that in the future.

GIP!

shenlo made me an icon!! Is it not made of win? :D

(It's an old character of mine, who is now featuring in his ComixBlog at House of Paulus. Let's just say she's not the sharpest tool in the shed.)

*snarl* *mutter* *growl*

Okay, it may be called "slip slip knit," but it's more like "struggle struggle curse."

It seems my purling tension is too tight. Gnarr. Must fix this the next time around, or else this blanket is going to get finished somewhere around Christmas 2015. :P This one row took me nearly 45 minutes.

I am going to *cry*

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.