Sometimes…
…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)
May 7th, 2007 at 9:24 am
I’ve done that! Boy, does she owe you for this
It’s gorgeous.
May 7th, 2007 at 10:20 am
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!
May 7th, 2007 at 10:31 am
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!
May 7th, 2007 at 10:32 am
You’re a braver woman than I, Gunga Din.
May 7th, 2007 at 10:33 am
That’s pretty brave. I think I would have tinked.
May 7th, 2007 at 10:47 am
I had to do the same thing with my Moth. it took me hours to get all the stitches back on the needles.
May 7th, 2007 at 10:55 am
Ugh, I hate it when that happens. I could never have tinked back that many stitches either. It would have taken forever.
May 7th, 2007 at 11:14 am
Gorgeous!! I would have ended up with the whole thing frogged probably.
Now, is this the one for Dobby!?! We must see modeled pics!
May 7th, 2007 at 11:31 am
I would have needed more than a shot and a Cadbury egg!!! It looks so pretty!
May 7th, 2007 at 1:00 pm
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.
May 7th, 2007 at 1:02 pm
Damn! That takes a lot of chutzpah. I mean, a lot. And only one dropped stitch? I salute you.
May 7th, 2007 at 1:15 pm
It’s looking great!! Good job!
May 7th, 2007 at 1:41 pm
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.
May 7th, 2007 at 4:37 pm
Ouch! I’m impress with the just one dropped stitch.
Amy
May 7th, 2007 at 5:05 pm
Wow, only one dropped stitch!?! Very good.
May 7th, 2007 at 7:06 pm
Hoorah for wiskey!
May 7th, 2007 at 8:42 pm
I would have taken the shot of whiskey!
It looks beautiful!
May 7th, 2007 at 9:52 pm
That’s awesome! You rule!
May 7th, 2007 at 9:56 pm
Just one dropped stitch? You Rock!!
May 8th, 2007 at 12:00 am
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.
May 8th, 2007 at 5:27 pm
You have my admiration. I can’t even get that far on any lace project!
May 9th, 2007 at 7:02 am
Lifelines, grrrl. Boy you are gutsy.
May 10th, 2007 at 7:47 am
Just one stitched dropped? That’s very impressive!