54. That’s how many rows I was into Lilly. Oh. And let me not forget to mention that I was knitting her in one piece to the underarms. So multiply that x 3. At… oh…. about row 25 or so I was thinking that I didn’t like the way the side shaping was looking and that maybe I should just go ahead and rip it back out before I got too far. Naaahhh… it’ll be fine. I convinced myself of this with every right side row. You can see on the 2nd, 6th and 8th column that I’d messed up too. And I just now spotted one on the 4th column from the right. Dropping stitches down to fix an error in this pattern is near impossible. Obviously I wasn’t successful and by row 54 I knew I wasn’t going to be happy with the finished cardigan so…..
Frog City. I hooked it up to the ball winder and cranked away.
I cast back on but I’m going to do it in pieces so the shaping won’t be so noticeable. I’m already on row 59 of the back and it’s looks SO much better. The pattern is almost mindless now but it’s an awful lot like ribbing with a backwards yarn over stuck in there now and then. I’m really glad that I went ahead and ripped it back. This Jaeger Roma that I bought from Elann back in November is beautiful stuff. Soft and easy to knit.
In my last post I had a little verse from a song from what I thought was a popular line dance. I was surprised at how many people didn’t catch the verse that I wrote. I found this video of people doing it at a wedding (of course the clap your hands line isn’t until the very end of the video):
Kinda like the Chicken Song. Dumb but fun.
Poor Aggie. I’d made some banana bran muffins (I’d share the recipe but they were horrible) on Saturday in our quest to lose weight. Dan had one the other day and decided that the foil liner was the perfect accessory for Aggie. Poor dog. She wasn’t amused.
