Now that I have the attention of my fellow high school marching band members, let me reassure you that I’m only talking about my current knitting project. It is constructed using the second-easiest pattern I can think of (the easiest is cast on n stitches, knit across, turn), and I have still managed to somehow screw it up.
I don’t know what I did here — knitters, count four from the rightmost stitch on the left needle — so I don’t know what to do to undo it. My plan is to un-knit (tink, get it?) this row and the previous row until I reach this point, at which the nature of the error will probably be made clear. And then I can fix it and go forward again.
It may be that I didn’t do anything wrong until I thought that I dropped a stitch, and tried to fix things by picking up a stitch. So maybe the problem is that I picked up a stitch when I didn’t need to. That’s still a problem that I can better assess when I reach the previous row, and I can still fix it by going backwards one stitch at a time.
I was so close. I calculated that I could knit 10 rows (five ridges) in this color before switching to the heather grey and finishing off the shawl with a stripe, a row of eyelets, and a bind-off row. But now we go back, go back, go back — go back to where we were. Then we go forward again.
I’ve gotten no further on the Impossible Read in the last week, but I’ve made great progress on the final class paper — which will be the basis of the final PowerPoint and the final in-class presentation. I’m not overdoing it, I’m not overdoing it, I’m not overdoing it.
Okay, I might be overdoing it — but just a little bit. Dr. Lango, you did tell me to create a programmatic intervention detailed enough that someone else could run it. Well, here you go. (On December 2, that is.) Twelve-page paper, references, syllabus, and end-of-class survey. It’s all there — or at least it will be by the deadline. I would also create a Canvas course for my intervention, but that might be overdoing it.
Knitwise, since I’m within sight of the end of the current knitting project, I’m already thinking about what I’d like to have next on the needles. My friend Mary has been knitting a series of hats, which is something I could also do if I find a stash yarn that calls out to me. She’s thinking about wristwarmer patterns, too, which brings to mind my failed attempt at the owl-themed wristwarmers. I’m willing to start those over when I have good light and uninterrupted time. I’ll also rewrite those cable instructions out in a way that I will understand this time around.
Chocolate Sheep 