Fell in love with the Leaves on the Path scarf from Knitting Daily, and decided I'd make it for myself with the Cascade 220 I bought as my "anniversary" present. I've never knitted from a charted design before and challenged myself to do it. The person who rang up my yarn suggested I enlarge the graph so it would be easier to see.
I breezed through 2/3 of the chart, and left it mid-row while eating dinner. Came back to knit more and a couple rows later saw a gaping hole: I'd done a double yarn over! So, I meticulously took each row out and erased the mark where I thought I'd knitted it. And lost my place.
Ribbit.
Well, yesterday I restarted my scarf (I even used lifelines), and used the cable cast-on instead of long-tail; it looks much nicer. Went back to it after eating lunch .....
and found not only an oversized stitch four rows down but a split stitch halfway down from there.
Now it's totally off the needles, in a tote bag for who knows how long.
I don't know if it's overconfidence, the color of the yarn, or maybe even the remains of the tropical storm coming up this way, but this scarf is the most contrary, troublesome thing I've ever tried to make!
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