Jon's Knit Blog

It Even Photographs Badly

So if you guessed that I got 14 rows done on the Cable-y Goodness sweater today, you'd be right. And if you guessed that I've finally mis-crossed a cable on this sleeve too, you'd be right. Lesson #1: Don't try and pay attention to knitting when you're watching a movie that makes you cry. (Big Fish to be precise, but I've been known to cry at the dropping of a hat).

You'd also be right if you guessed that I started a new project today. I broke out the laceweight because I finally had picked a pattern (Rosebud Mesh from Barbara Walker's Second Treasury...) for the sister's wedding stole.

Lesson #2 for the day: Lace Knitting requires more attention than previously thought. I really thought I was paying the right amount of attention. as I worked through 5 pattern rows. But after ending wrong on all but two of them, I decided that I need to have a better plan. It should have been to start over without TV on after the first row that was improperly finished, but you know how I can be. So I've lost a few hours of my life over this:

See? It doesn't even photograph well. What a day. I think I need to go to bed now. Hopefully I'll dream about cake, like I did last night, rather than about knitting shitty lace.

Mmm, cake.