Apr 8
Look at the terror
FIFTY-FIVE ROWS!!
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Look at the terror
FIFTY-FIVE ROWS!!
I'm doing knitting surgery over here and my wife, whom I'd been with for over twenty years, called it crochet. The outrage was probably an overreaction (and I'm not actually upset), but it stopped my focus and thought process. How can you be with me for two decades, listening to me talk about both, vent about both, and mix them up?!
Aaah!
Also, I fucked up 17 rows down on the braid, and I haven't even gotten to the honeycomb yet (I'm fixing them separately because I hate myself). I don't have another US11 needle to use as a cable needle, so I put a stitch saver on the end of a tapestry needle to hold stitches until I can put them back on the needles.
I took a photo to illustrate what's happening.
I am scared, y'all. The honeycomb errors are much, much farther down.
I am so freaking happy right now. I had to unravel part of the honeycomb repeat of my grandson's blanket to correct two mis-crossings of the cables. I was so anxious about it, I had to let it sit for a while to work up the nerve to do it.
I used this video to fix it.
It was a total of 16 rows undone...so yeah, I was freaking out a bit. It worked perfectly. WHOOOOHOOOO!
I've been busy. I don't need the yellow marker, I just like knowing where the exact middle is.
Ok, before I start on the honeycomb, here's where I'm at. I'm making this on circular interchangeable needles (I do most all my knitting like this). The six-strand braid is dead center of the blanket. And what is on one side is mirrored on the other. It's to fit a twin bed. Adama is menacing my hanging lifeline.
The markers in the honeycomb are the errors. The one in the six-strand braid just shows exact center (I'm just weird like that) and the one waaay off to the right near the diamond just shows where I need to tack down a strand that split.
Watching/listening to Critical Role while knitting. (S1E4) Vox Machina. Grog is great. I love Travis's "Enjoy Grog" tshirt.
Honeycomb stitch is evil. It doesn't look like it is. It lulls you into complacency and waits to fuck you over.
I'm done! There's a small error I noticed maybe two rows down in the connecting honeycomb to purl 2 section I leave before the double moss, but I'll fix that tomorrow. I also identified a hole near a diamond that was created because this yarn brand knots their yarn. Awful. I'll fix that later also.
I'm short and it's after 0400, so I kneeled precariously on a chair to get the whole blanket. My resident tall people are sleeping.
I knew going into this that this would be a multi-day thing. There's 43 rows left in this picture. I stopped early last night because I thought I was keeping my wife up. Turns out it was the heat, not me. The Mojave is hot, peeps.