knitting is a hereditary disease

Out of the Race

Posted on 08/22/2008 by Andrea | Comments (0)
Filed under : Ravelympics 2008

I was so sure I was going to be able to finish Liesl in time for the end of the Olympics this Sunday. I'd finished the entire body and just needed to pick up the sleeve stitches and knit the short sleeves. No problem, right?

But after getting all my sleeve stitches onto needles, I quickly found myself completely confused about which side was the right side and which side was the wrong side. It took an embarrassing amount of time before I realized the reason for my confusion: I'd accidentally switched my direction of knitting after knitting the yoke. So the yoke was inside out but the entire rest of the body was right side out. Or vice versa.

After mom's stocking reversal, and now this, I'm beginning to think not only is knitting a hereditary disease, but possibly dyslexia?

I stared at it for a while until I finally had to come to terms with the depressing fact that there's no easy fix. I have to pull the entire body of the sweater out back to the armholes.

I could probably finish it if I didn't do anything else all weekend. That is not going to happen.

Well, Mom, I guess if this is a competition, looks like you're going to be the winner!