I've been a little under the weather. I had to clean the house for the Super Bowl party (yes, Robert helped). I need to do our taxes. I had to wash my hair. The snow melted. My ankle still hurts a little. Etc. etc. etc.
One or more of the above has to be an acceptable excuse for this:
Look! Actual progress on the Short-Row hat!
Look! Actual HUMONGOUS mistake in the Short-Row hat!
Not that I'm surprised. But I was really moving along - I learned how to do the ssp here, and I was actually starting to figure out how the pattern worked. The part where I messed up is the brim - I finally got it that you knit the crazy thing sideways! I had completed almost the entire first page of the pattern, but when I realized that it wasn't right, I decided to frog it yet again. It's going to be right, people. I'm going to make this hat. I might never wear it after it's done, but I'm going to make it!
My problem is two-fold. One, I'm "punishing" myself for not getting this pattern by restricting my knitting on other projects. That's also a reward system for me, so once I'm back in the groove, I'll allow myself to do something I'm liking (since Short-Row and I are not on very good terms right now). Like for instance, Lizard Ridge. Check out Zarah's blanket - she's got 16 of those squares done! I only have one. I'm inspired - yet - must. do. Short. Row. hat.
Two, while I was encouraged surfing the web and finding all these other knitters and bloggers who had successfully knitted this hat, and found a couple of instances where they too thought the pattern was written needlessly complex, I am discouraged by the instructions in Section 3 (which I will get to again someday).
"Row 13: (RS) K15, turn.
Row 15: K14, turn."
Ummm, Ms. Avery? Veronik? What am I supposed to do on Row 14?
HELP!
But see - others have figured this out. Why can't I? I'm having a knitting inferiority complex. The only thing I've successfully knitted this week is the February KAL:
Yeah, yeah. It's cute. Yippee. A heart dishcloth. Whoo hoo.
Thanks for letting me whine. I'm off to rip out the hat - again! I guess I should think positively - after all, I am getting very good at the provisional cast on!
Comments (5)
You can do it, Tammy! (Maybe that ball of yarn is jinxed. Can you try with a different one?)
Posted by Zarah | February 6, 2007 8:49 PM
Hope your feeling better. You were sick and I had one kid that was sick. Everyone I know is either getting over being sick or is getting sick....tis the season. You'll get the hat. It's always disappointing to find a mistake that you made and having to rip it back out, been there done that. Had to do it with my sisters socks like 3 times before I got it right. : )
Posted by Trish | February 6, 2007 9:48 PM
I'm sorry you haven't been feeling well, Tammy. I hope that you are feeling better today. Best of luck on the short row hat. I know what you mean about wanting to finish it ~ just for the sheer fact that you don't want it to win! I get it! Sending you positive short row hat finishing mojo. :-)
Posted by Sue | February 6, 2007 10:08 PM
I had a pattern like the short row hat that gave me headache after headache and then didn't even fit me in the end! I regained my knitterly confidence by knitting a couple of scarves. After all, scarves have no size! Then I was ready to tackle the big stuff again.
You can do it! You can do it!
Posted by Brianne | February 7, 2007 10:25 AM
awww, sorry you were feeling poorly... we're all fighting off a horrible flu here... and I have a pattern that makes sense to everyone but me... I set it aside, lol, I'll go back to it eventually :D Hope by now you're feeling better!
Posted by Jaime | February 9, 2007 12:18 PM