I was surfing Ravelry while finishing up the second repeat of the day (I've been averaging two repeats per day) on Saturday night. Half thinking I'd throw in a third and get ahead. And then I read Jax' post (to the shawl thread in our ZPDK's Rav group) that she lost part of her cast on and put the project into time out (What's this time out thing? Is that like when I just throw things at the wall?). Uh...the cast on. Yes, cast on invisibly. I knew that. It's right there in the pattern. I KNEW that.
But, somehow, in the midst of why can't I just cast on the first section provisionally, pick up the live stitches and knit the the other direction instead of grafting the two ends together (because it's knit from the outsides in, that's why) and then reknitting (and therefor, re-casting on) that first repeat a gazillion times because I kept losing a stitch (damn shifting YO)...I lost the cast on invisibly part. Long tail it was.
Ten repeats in. Out of thirty four (seventeen in each section, if you're grafting). Surely the cast on won't matter so much? I'll just bind off the other end (the hell with grafting two parts so the pattern flows the same direction from either end, plenty of people knit it all one direction/piece) and pick up stitches for the edging. They'll match, right? No way in hell was I starting over.
Yeah. I frogged.
But, somehow, in the midst of why can't I just cast on the first section provisionally, pick up the live stitches and knit the the other direction instead of grafting the two ends together (because it's knit from the outsides in, that's why) and then reknitting (and therefor, re-casting on) that first repeat a gazillion times because I kept losing a stitch (damn shifting YO)...I lost the cast on invisibly part. Long tail it was.
Ten repeats in. Out of thirty four (seventeen in each section, if you're grafting). Surely the cast on won't matter so much? I'll just bind off the other end (the hell with grafting two parts so the pattern flows the same direction from either end, plenty of people knit it all one direction/piece) and pick up stitches for the edging. They'll match, right? No way in hell was I starting over.
Yeah. I frogged.
4 comments:
the pain, the agony! I feel for you. If it makes you feel any better, I did a fair share of ripping this weekend, too.
I totally almost said on that Rav post to just go with it and pick up the stitches from the cast on edge when you get there.... That's what I would have done anyway...At least you've got the pattern memorized now.
You really freaking frogged it? I'm forward ho-ing! No turning back, no frogging, no tears! Onward knitting soldier!
Ok, yeah, it sucks to be you.
Holy Froggage! 10 reapeats in? You are a brave soul!
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