Raspberry Rip-ple.

Last night I had an accident with my Raspberry Dreams Stole (rav link).

I don’t know how it happened, I really don’t. I am completely stunned. I had to rip back all of this gorgeous panel (and more considering it's 3 repeats wide and i was at least another inch higher above that lifeline you can see)…right to the very beginning.

I made the fatal mistake of not moving my lifeline up with me and when tinking a s2kp went badly wrong and left me with unravelled stitches, I ripped back to the lifeline, only to find that I could not make head nor tail of where I was in the pattern, no matter how hard I tried. I had the feeling this was not going to be rectified even if I left it overnight to give me some thinking space….that pattern is just too bloody complex. If you lose it, you lose it. There are many people remarking in this months KAL, that they are not finding this stole relaxing and it is a difficult knit, probably due to the chart not being easily memorised with lots of little niggly bits such as K7togs.

So. I am back to the start again.

My Christmas knitting is now officially killing me dead inside.

Nanna's cardigan has been an ordeal as well. But it is almost finished and there are pictures of that to come.

I have decided that i shall recover by knitting handwarmers, oh yes I shall.

Frogged Object.

Dear Bafana Bafana Sockies,

I love you. You are so pretty. However, i have to accept that for a skinny chick, i have cankles and you just do not fit me at the stated stitch count and gauge. I love you so much that i do not want to frog you, but i have no choice. I'll always remember you, and will resurrect you soon. I promise.

Just know that it is definitely not you. It's me.

Liz x

There are no words.

These socks.

These socks in the yarn that i hate. I got so close to finishing them. I was down to kitchenering the toe closed on the last sock. But that yarn. THAT YARN. The kitchener wasn't working out well because the yarn stuck to itself and wouldn't pull through. Then the stitches came off the needles which is bad news with THAT YARN because stitches are not only difficult to see but they are almost impossible to pick up. I have given up. I have ripped back hours of work. Hours of mentally and physically painful work that i am not willing to re-live. I have half-frogged the sock and i am putting it away somewhere where i won't have to look at it for a very long time.

I am starting something new tomorrow, something that i will enjoy knitting in lovely yarn. Something tells me that now is not the time to start winding a skein into a ball. One knot and i might just have a nervous breakdown.

I actually feel sick.

Knitting Fail :(

Two posts in less than 24 hours? What did you all do to deserve this? Well you can thank my new squishies. I'm feeling the need to vent.

I was so excited yesterday. I had new squishies that i was lovingly patting at my desk all day and dreaming about knitterly things (i have things delivered to work, partly so that the postman doesn't take them back to the sorting office and also because it's an excitable addition to a day otherwise filled with powerpoint presentations and spreadsheets).

When i got home, i was tired, but not too tired to start a knitty project, so i got out my lovely new wool in the beautiful green colourway and started trying to learn to knit in the round using magic loop. Uh Oh. The yarn was all uneven, running thick and thin, worse still it wasn't plyed and was barely twisted in places so was all splitty. Anything i knitted wouldn't rip out because it all stuck to itself. And it wouldn't go over the knuckles of my circular needle. Oh woe was me. This is the last time i'll buy yarn off the internet without checking the comments page on Ravelry for that particular yarn.

I must admit though, it probably wasn't entirely the yarn's fault. My circs aren't great and the cables are too stiff and short for magic loop so i decided to buy some new ones from getknitted.....and ahem boughtsomenewyarn. At least i checked Rav this time though! That makes it ok, right?