This week I had a combination of ups and downs.
Ups
- My car wasn’t actually dead like previously believed and has another year in the tank before I need to buy a new one.
- I finished my tank top and it fits really well.
- Good health news about a family member.
Downs
- After the one millionth drop, my cellphone screen finally cracked. And I do mean, SHATTERED! So there went a few dollars to fix it.
- I got eaten alive by mosquitos at two evening events over the weekend. I’m so itchy I think I might tear my limbs off. It was really f*cking hot this weekend and we don’t have AC. So sleep was non-existent until the heat wave broke.
- I discovered I had messed up on a section of my Eifelgold shawl and had to do a partial surgery.
After all of that I’m just feeling solidly in the middle. Luckily the ups were bigger than the downs this week. Sometimes you just gotta get the funky weeks over with so the next can be better.
So knitting… First off I have a finished object! Yay!
My tank top is delightful. It’s exactly how I wanted it and I’m just pleased as punch with my finishing skills. I did a very nice i cord bind off around the arm-holes and the neckline. It really made the top look complete.
Eifelgold. Overall good. I knit on it during both evening events I went to this weekend. Unfortunately, the patterned section is hard to knit in the dark. On Sunday morning, I went to a coffee shop for my caffeine fix (iced) and some much needed AC. It was already 90 at this point and the temp was still rising. I called my dad for Father’s day.
After all this I pulled out the shawl, got ⅔ to the end of the row, and realized there was a mistake in the pattern. A big one. One that couldn’t be ignored. One that was already 4 rows wrong. Over 70+ stitches of the wrong pattern for 4 rows. What do I do?!!
Do I frog the entire last 4 rows? At this point my rows are over 200 stitches end to end. So ripping out whole rows wasn’t really appealing but it was also a big section to drop down stitch by stitch and rework.
So I did something in the middle. I took those 70+ stitches that were incorrectly according to the pattern off the needles. I pulled out the 4 rows that were wrong and put the stitches back on.
It was a little tricky towards the end of the section where the float started to get really short, but I made it work. When I had worked the last stitch of the problem area, I flipped my work around and knit back across with my next row float. Then twice more.
When I got back to the beginning, I was ready to pick back up with my working yarn at the next row and you couldn’t see that I had done any of this “surgery”. It looked like I had never made mistakes.
I’m so proud to have been able to solve that problem without calling my mom or asking Google! It made that mistake a positive for my week. Which really is the most I could ask for in that situation.
So all in all, not bad. Next week I get to see the fam. Not looking forward to doing that drive by myself but I’m looking forward to some R&R and seeing my best friend. So everything is looking up.