Note to self
It's a typical Friday night for me. I have sworn off paper grading and lesson planning until tomorrow. I have chosen, instead, to knit. Since learning how to wind a center-pull ball of yarn using my thumb and an online video, I decided to wind one of my orange hanks of Malabrigo. After getting snagged by two major tangles and using scissiors, I finally got it wound into two separate balls. Wanting to work on my Bel Cloche hat, I dug out the pattern and my project bag. I wrongly assumed that I knew where in the pattern I had left off. I thought I was ready to do the eyelet row where a ribbon would be later inserted, but I failed to see the part about 5 rows of stockinette stitch with the contrasting color (the orange Malabrigo) before the eyelet row. I nonchalantly breezed through the eyelet row and the following 3 stockinette stitch rows. Then I noticed my mistake and I realized that there was no way around it, I was going to have to frog back 4 rows of knitting, which is the thing I hate the most. It's tedious and I just don't have the energy tonight.
So, with the fudged hat put neatly back in the project bag and stuck back on the shelf, I know that I have learned two lessons tonight: 1- I need to get a ball winder and 2- I need to mark where I left off on my patterns before I decide to leave them unattended for weeks at a time.
