Picture it. I was sitting on a friend's front porch, enjoying a light breeze, knitting while Mitzi had a play date with her doggie friend, Marco. I was knitting along on my Swallowtail Shawl, taking mental note that I was finally making progress and that, at the end of the pattern repeat, I should put in place a lifeline, just in case.
Eighteen or so stitches before the end of the row / pattern repeat, my right-hand needle slipped out of the stitches and I lost, at least momentarily, half a dozen or more stitches.
No amount of futzing put things right. I now have at least three rows to tink back. I am bereft.
I put it aside for a day or two. I've got the Luna Moth Shawl back into forward motion again, so I think I'll finish the remaining thirty rows and have done with it before returning to the Swallowtail.
So sad. It was looking so beautiful. What if I can't ever get it right? Why, oh why didn't I put a lifeline in earlier?
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The question everyone asks after a knitting disaster: why didn't I put in a lifeline!?!?!
Of course if you did then this would be an awfully short posting.
Ok I'm off to do a little shawl knitting myself .... living life on the edge .... no lifeline. That's just how I roll.
I'm simply impressed that you would attempt any socialization at all, I would find it difficult to chew gum and knit lace.
Keep trying though, sooner or later you will make it.
Congrats on being brave enough to knit a complex lace pattern in public with friends,
I need quiet and solitude!
Adopt the mantra "a lifeline is my friend"
it saves lots of anguish and yes, swear words.
You'll get it right. Hang in there.
I have to delurk and tell you that you are in good company. Check out these posts on the Yarn Harlot's blog. http://www.yarnharlot.ca/blog/archives/2006/06/23/out_of_words.html
and the follow up here: http://www.yarnharlot.ca/blog/archives/2006/06/27/what_is_possible.html . You have to scroll down to it on that second one.
See? Feel better now? :)
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