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I am working on a lace scarf with a 28-row repeat. I figured I'd lifeline at rows 14 and 28, because I haven't ever needed a lifeline anyway and they're a PITA to put in.
Yesterday, on row 24 of the repeat, I discover that somewhere I've lost a stitch. And if it were stockinette that would be easy enough to fix, but this is lace, and has stitches branching off of yarnovers. I attempted to pick up a stitch from where I thought it should originate, but that left more of a mess, something that looked much like another yarnover in its own right.
Now, this will come as a shock to you I'm sure, but I am a bit of a perfectionist.
(and the ocean is a bit wet. yes.)
...and I'd like to be able to create the perfect FO, but of course that pretty much never happens. With some knitting errors, though, I can just keep chugging along, figuring that no one but me would ever notice it and the effort of redoing stuff wasn't worth a mistake I might make again and did I mention no one else would notice it honest.
This? Was not one of those sorts of mistakes.
So, after much whimpering and whining and fortifying-with-chocolate, I frogged back to the lifeline.
Today, I made up nine of those ten lost rows. In the process, I a) dropped an edge stitch once, and b) made a ssk, realized two rows later that it should have been a k2tog, managed to fix it with a third needle and a crochet hook and lots of holding my breath, and realized two rows after /that/ that it really /had/ been supposed to be a ssk.
I filed both of those under "no one will notice". But. Still.
Yesterday, on row 24 of the repeat, I discover that somewhere I've lost a stitch. And if it were stockinette that would be easy enough to fix, but this is lace, and has stitches branching off of yarnovers. I attempted to pick up a stitch from where I thought it should originate, but that left more of a mess, something that looked much like another yarnover in its own right.
Now, this will come as a shock to you I'm sure, but I am a bit of a perfectionist.
(and the ocean is a bit wet. yes.)
...and I'd like to be able to create the perfect FO, but of course that pretty much never happens. With some knitting errors, though, I can just keep chugging along, figuring that no one but me would ever notice it and the effort of redoing stuff wasn't worth a mistake I might make again and did I mention no one else would notice it honest.
This? Was not one of those sorts of mistakes.
So, after much whimpering and whining and fortifying-with-chocolate, I frogged back to the lifeline.
Today, I made up nine of those ten lost rows. In the process, I a) dropped an edge stitch once, and b) made a ssk, realized two rows later that it should have been a k2tog, managed to fix it with a third needle and a crochet hook and lots of holding my breath, and realized two rows after /that/ that it really /had/ been supposed to be a ssk.
I filed both of those under "no one will notice". But. Still.