May 29, 2014 – mud&string

DANG

While I’m waiting for the yarn to arrive to complete the My Harmonica Shrug, I decided to go ahead and start this. I had the yarn, I had the needles, I had the pattern and I even did a gauge swatch. The pattern starts out CO 338 stitches. Place marker and join in the round. Knit five rounds, purl one round. It’s working, everything looks to be fine, right stitch count, etc. I don’t have to tell you how many stitches are in six rounds of 338. Anyway, as I’m putting this new project to bed (I try to sort things out a little, make sure I know where to start when I next pick it up, looking for dropped stitches, just making sure I have no nasty surprises the next day, stuff like that). Anyhow, (you fiber artists already know what I’m going to say next, don’t you?) I saw that it was twisted. Oh no, please no!!!!!! Yeah, twisted. At 11 p.m., I frogged what I’d knitted and started casting those 338 stitches on, again. Maybe my Fyberspates will arrive today, sigh. Here’s what it looked like before frogging –