Knitting Hell

Last night I was in knitting hell. I had been working on the shetland shawl most of the afternoon, and after dinner I realized I had made a mistake. At first, I tried to correct the mistake from where I was in the shawl, but that only made it worse. What to do? Tink! And tink some more. For those of you not familiar with knitting slang, 'tinking' is when you undo your knitting one stitch at a time as opposed to just ripping rows out. Have you ever tried to undo mohair yarn? It sticks together like burrs on your socks. Unknitting mohair is just the pits. And how much did I have to unknit? Four rows of approximately 150 stitches each. It was hell, I tell you, HELL! I seriously considered trashing the whole project, but every time I looked at what I had, I really liked the pattern and the yarn together when there were no mistakes. So...I tinked and tinked and tinked. I finally got to the mistake and fixed it. Today I have been able to go forward, and I'm glad I took the time to fix the error.

I also have a correction. In a previous post I told you the shetland shawl was in the Scarf Style book. It is not. It is in the Wrap Style book. I apologize for the incorrect information.