This pattern was going along all easy-peasy until I realized there was a bit of confusion with my counting. It said KRL and then knit 7 and I didn't know whether or not the knit 7 started with the stitch that I KRL'd into or the one after that - was the action of KRLing a one stitch maneuver or two? I know now that it was just one but it was enough to plant a seed of doubt...
I just frogged the last four rows, not because I've made a mistake (that I can see) but because I'm second guessing myself and just learning the whole KRL/KLL thing and I have a hard time keeping my tension even when I don't have the stitch down just right. I don't even really know why but I want a redo. #crazyladyliveshere The shoulder shaping is really the only thing this piece has to keep it from being a tube, and I'd hate to have a gap to a bump.
I am finishing up All The Light We Cannot See after a few weeks off because I had to return it to the library and there was a waitlist for it. I am really enjoying it despite the fact that I saw a review to the contrary. I have a really hard time when I want to like something but someone else says they don't. I don't like when others lift the veil on a story by needling out all the contradictions and weaknesses.
I am just starting Little Heathens on my Kindle. Its subtitle tells you all you need to know: Hard Times and High Spirits on and Iowa Farm During the Great Depression. The only other thing you may care to know is that she includes family recipes!
Julian has moved on to Have His Carcase by Dorothy Sayers and for the most part he is reading to numb his brain and rest so I don't hear many of the details of the story. He does entertain me with funny quotes from time to time and that is nice.
What are you reading/working on? Show and tell with me, Ginny and the others!
Your yarn is really pretty! Best of luck with the shaping and figuring it out. I hate that feeling of second guessing and not feeling quite pleased.
ReplyDeleteHappy week!
I hate when that little bit of doubt seeps in and takes hold, I am going to have to do some research, I have no idea what KRL even means. Good luck, I'm sure you will get it all worked out and have a gorgeous knit!
ReplyDeleteOh those reviews, sometimes they are way off. I usually have trouble when everyone likes a book and I think it's terrible! I loved, loved, loved All the Light We Cannot See, it's in my top book list.
I hate when I second guess and think and re-think patterns. I feel so clueless sometimes! I'm glad to see I am not the only one that hesitates. It's a pretty color yarn and I know you will be able to figure it out.
ReplyDeleteI love the color of your current knitting. I have to look up stuff all the time and I have to look up the same answers over and over again! Argh!
ReplyDeleteI am also reading All the Light We Cannot See and I like it, too.
"I don't like when others lift the veil on a story by needling out all the contradictions and weaknesses." Very well-said. I'll stop telling you why I do and don't like Dorothy Sayers books now. Please forgive.
ReplyDeleteHa! I wasn't thinking specifically about you or the mysteries, but I suppose it applies across the board, sort of. This particular article pointed our all the historical inaccuracies ad nauseam. It is fiction. We all know it is fiction. Why be a spoil sport?
DeleteLovely color that yarn! It is a tricky balans to search for information about a book but not to get too much info...
ReplyDeleteSounds like a tough pattern. I so hate it when I have to rethink it all. Love the color!
ReplyDeleteI love that yarn colour, the pattern sounds like a faff though! :)
ReplyDeleteI have had that problem before with increasing - some patterns increase into the next stitch and some use the loop between and it alters the stitch count depending on which one. I normally count the stitches using both methods to see which fits.
ReplyDeleteI love, love, love the colour of your yarn - reminds me of daffodils.
Little Heathens is wonderful - I'm sure you will love it.
I have had that problem before with increasing - some patterns increase into the next stitch and some use the loop between and it alters the stitch count depending on which one. I normally count the stitches using both methods to see which fits.
ReplyDeleteI love, love, love the colour of your yarn - reminds me of daffodils.
Little Heathens is wonderful - I'm sure you will love it.
that book is on my list and overall I think most people like it....so I bet I would like it as well. I'm reading one right now and I'm wondering what is going to happen so I guess that is a good thought!! bummer about ripping out :(
ReplyDeleteThe ripping out actually went really well and I ended up with the exact number of stitches I was supposed to have, which is great but then probably confirms that I had it right all along... oh well. Now I know. I'm confident you'd like it, though I like most anything about WWII, it is fascinating to me.
DeleteI'm sorry you had to rip back, but you don't want to get much further on and have a gap, even if it confirmed you were right in the first place.
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