so I haven’t been knitting for about two weeks…I think I was put off by my cats destroying a pair of my needles and I had so many kitchen toys and recipes that I got distracted. Anyway, I sat down today and started knitting my mom’s project. I changed the pattern because I wanted to do Fair Isle but I didn’t want to deal with cables on top of it.
So it was really annoying because my book and other websites didn’t tell me that when weaving in the color I’m not using that I have to alternate between weaving and regular stitches. So I spent 3 hours trying to figure out what I was doing wrong and then found two sites that told me…seriously I need to write a knitting book or buy a 50year old one that gives every little detail. Anyway, so I restarted the project 3 times because I was figuring out when to weave and its a learning process. So I’ve made a lot of progress considering I was watching movies and making food in between.
Anyway, when it comes to this post I don’t do the auto-spell check. I tend to re-read it and I still end up with typos but I try. My point is that I take the time to read my blog and read it aloud just to make sure. But this book I got for my birthday can’t even bother to check if the pattern is correct. The sides are lopsided…one side has 1 red stitch and the other side has 3 red stitches plus 2 white stitches. Plus they messed up by saying that to repeat 3-21 rows but when I ended the first part I was on the wrong side…side 2 I guess if people can imagine. I’m supposed to be on an odd side but if I follow the pattern I end up on an even side which isn’t a huge deal to fix. It just upsets me that I’m trying to make this scarf and the pattern seems to be completely wrong. It’s a published book…I’d rather that the text be messed up rather than the pattern. Ugh so now I have to start over because the pattern looks so weird with one side short and one side long.
P.S. I’m not spell checking this until tomorrow because I need to restart this project…grr
