sheep in the city

Try, try again

I have been looking forward to knitting with these girls for the last month, since we met the last time. It is such a creative group of women...here they are around the table (l to r, starting with the girl in the black sweater) Libby (who I have to gush over one more time because I am sooo proud of her, and a little in awe, check out here beautiful pattern in the current knitty called Belle Epoque ...hello gorgeous!), Anne brought her "wiggle" cardigan that she had to rip out last week...aawww, but it's restarted and looking great Anne! Tamara was the resident knitting help for the evening, she helped both Anne and I fix some problems. Thanks Tamara! Karen was next to her and new to the group last night. She was knitting on a black moss stitch scarf with homespun Alpaca. Michelle was working really hard on a Noro scarf that you work length-wise, instead of width-wise. I love, love, love the color she was using. Check it out, this is the Booga Bag that she finished a while ago using the same color as her scarf. I have a stash of this colorway that I have been hoarding for about a year now. I still need to find the perfect project for it, but it needs to be just the right thing. Do you ever have yarn that you like so much it's hard to knit something with it? There is a fear inside of me that the finished garment won't live up to the love I had for the yarn when I first purchased it. Am I a total weirdo, or what? So, I digress...Cathi who I now think of as the craft queen, especially after last night...I can't talk about the project that she was working on...let me just say that she is a knitting/crafting rock star! wow!, And, last but not least, BJ...new to the group and so fun with her pretty beaded necklace that she made!

So...my knitting issue of the day is with Wavy...how can I get so far, go to my knitting group, and go home with a smaller, much shorter scarf. Dang! Here's how: I was cruising along this week, knitting away as fast as my small fingers would go...oops, mistake...oops, huge mistake. Must rip out large section of scarf. Back on track...oops...have to rip out again. What is my problem? Well, it could be too much late night knitting. Have you heard that old adage "don't knit after 10:00pm"? Yeah, I should have listened to whoever comes up with these rules, or at least don't knit after 1:00am, sheesh! Sorry I don't have pictures, but basically what happened is that somewhere between the first and second repeat I switched sides. I'm thinking that I forgot to check off one of the odd rows (where you K the knits, P the purls), so my right side was now my wrong side. That was the first problem...fixed that. Couple days later, knitting right along...oops, I somehow have the ribbing off by one stitch which made the wave not turn back in the right direction! (you can see this a little bit in the last post, my wave should have gone back to the right, but it just keeps going up to the left, big oops!!) So last night, sitting at Barnes and Noble I ribbed...i mean ripped, out two pattern repeats (ouch!). Note to self: pay attention, and mark rows off like the author of the pattern suggests. This pattern is not hard, but you are making it more difficult Stacey...pay attention, and no more late night knitting!