i cast on green gable last night while watching borat. bad idea. the movie was painfully funny but you gotta wonder how they did not get their asses sued off. and i read somewhere that they did not have any permits. at all. and that two crew members were tossed in jail and ate a piece of paper with the day's shooting locations or something wacky like that.
anyway, casting on took forever. the backward loop method is just a pain but will look nice as the neckline. the first row was hard to knit because of the backward loop and kinda splitty yarn. making sure it wasn't twisted took massive amounts of time. about a third of borat has subtitles so i was watching the tv more than my hands. i finally got the markers in place, did the first row of lace, kept knitting and couldn't figure out why i had like three bars on the needle. sometimes my stitches are a bit sloppy when knitting in front of the tv but three bars in a row? weird. i corrected them and knit a couple more stitches and then realized that i am an idiot.
those bars? yeah, the YOs for the lace pattern. idiot*. i tinked back but wasn't sure if i picked up the YOs correctly. i knit a round, started the next round, realized that i forgot the increases, tinked back, added the increases, knit the lace pattern and realized yeah no, i didn't pick them up correctly. i just frogged it.
the wee one is down for a nap. i think i'll pop in a movie (that i've seen before) and start again.
* this is my first lace project if that counts for anything.
2 comments:
Trixie, I'm rippin'r. 114 stitches is ridiculous when I'm getting 5 stitches an inch. I have pictoral evidence; I'll post the saga tomorrow. Or maybe when my fingers are curled into claws from the knitcramps, later tonight...
oh no! mine is looking HUGE. heh.
i look forward to reading what happened to yours. i'll post pictures of mine.
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