So I had a bit of a snafu on the mystery project. Sitting at Starbucks on Wednesday night, I was blithely knitting away on the final sleeve, which has a couple of rows of cables near the bottom, creating a smocked effect. It's really cool. Well, I got quite a bit done there, and by Thursday night I was nearly up to the cap. Then I noticed that on one of the smocked rows, one cable was crossed the wrong way. I nearly wept. It was so obvious, and I must have been working so furiously at finishing the damn thing I just didn't look at what I had done.
But the story has a happy ending. While I was much too far along to drop down to the bad cable (I would have to go through another section of smocking, plus some increases), the designer suggested I duplicate stitch over the errant cable and make a sort of mock cross the right way. And it worked! If I didn't know the mistake was there, I definitely wouldn't see it. That cross just looks a little bit flatter than the others. The designer hasn't seen it yet, but I think (hope!) she'll approve. Because lord knows I don't have time to re-do the thing.
I have to finish my sweater in the next week, which will be tight. And then I have just a week and a half to do the sleeves of Hank8 and sew my sister's sweater together!
So what am I doing writing on this blog? I have to get back to knitting!
Oh, but the coolest thing this weekend was that I got to hang out with a bunch of knitters from all over the place (Wisconsin, Virginia, San Francisco, Canada) who all know each other from a knitting forum. It was wonderful to see them (some I met for the first time), even though I don't get into the forum much anymore. Hi Lynnette, Lisa, Dympna, Daphne, Paula, Thora, Michele and Karola!
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