…knitting lace (or lace knitting…whatever) can be very frustrating.
Yesterday afternoon all was well, life was good – RR had gone to the Rhinebeck junk sale with my Dad, Dobby was working and the house was quiet. I finished (or, I thought I did) the last repeat of Chart A on Moth. I decided to take some outdoor photos on the patio:
I then began (and completed) the reverse stockinette ridge prior to Chart B and started Chart B. Which is roughly where everything went to sh*t. It is also where I realized that when the instructions say to repeat the chart 14 times MORE that means FIFTEEN times TOTAL….dammit.
So I had five or six rows of 340ish stitches that I needed to tink…or rip out. Â I don’t have the patience for the tinking…so (after a Cadbury egg and an offer of a shot of whiskey from RR) out came the needles.
…fifteen minutes later Moth was back on the needles and ready to go:
 I only dropped one stitch ;o)
I’ve done that! Boy, does she owe you for this ;-) It’s gorgeous.
What a pain! At least you only ended up dropping one stitch. If it had happened to me, I probably would have frogged the whole thing and chucked it across the room!
Yeah, I’ve had to do that. I won’t tink quite that much either. Congrats on only one dropped stitch; hope it doesn’t give you any more trouble!
You’re a braver woman than I, Gunga Din.
That’s pretty brave. I think I would have tinked.
I had to do the same thing with my Moth. it took me hours to get all the stitches back on the needles.
Ugh, I hate it when that happens. I could never have tinked back that many stitches either. It would have taken forever.
Gorgeous!! I would have ended up with the whole thing frogged probably.
Now, is this the one for Dobby!?! We must see modeled pics!
I would have needed more than a shot and a Cadbury egg!!! It looks so pretty!
I’ve only done one pattern, but I can understand how much work it would be to rip back. Great job getting it to work out. I can’t wait to see the final results.
Damn! That takes a lot of chutzpah. I mean, a lot. And only one dropped stitch? I salute you.
It’s looking great!! Good job!
Lucky for you that everyone else was out of the house! I couldn’t possibly have done that with other people present, walking around and making noise and asking me things while I was picking up eight million tiny, free-floating stitches. Yikes.
Ouch! I’m impress with the just one dropped stitch.
Amy
Wow, only one dropped stitch!?! Very good.
Hoorah for wiskey!
I would have taken the shot of whiskey!
It looks beautiful!
That’s awesome! You rule!
Just one dropped stitch? You Rock!!
I hate it when patterns are written that way! I need some pretty darned obvious instructions myself.
Good for you for ripping out – a brave step when you are dealing with such a complex looking piece of work. And you only dropped one stitch?! That is excellent.
You have my admiration. I can’t even get that far on any lace project!
Lifelines, grrrl. Boy you are gutsy.
Just one stitched dropped? That’s very impressive!