OY THE PAIN -- I had to FROG 4 inches of my current knitting class project the other night :*-{ !!!! The class is for a felted tote bag knit out of double strands of lovely wool. I am doing a "pansy" bag in purple, lilac, green & yellow. The base and first four inches of the bag are done in a lovely heathered purple. I had that finished and had started with the 2" "tweeded" section where I drop one strand of the purple and start the lilac so that I have one strand of purple & one of lilac. That section is about 2" then I got to all lilac for 4". After that I repeat the process to incorporate the green and then the yellow. The top has holes knit into it and there are long knit straps that go through the holes -- in such a way that they sort of gather up the wider sides -- and then knotted. There are markers at the four corners (3 of one color and one of another color) of the base which is about 4" x 21". Every five rows, the pattern calls for adding one stitch on either side of the marker at the corners -- all four corners. I had 14 rows done which was just at the 4" mark and I was starting to incorporate the lilac when it dawned on MOI that I was adding stitches at the odd colored marker only -- not all four corners! OY THE PAIN -- LOLOL! It's a learning piece, I keep telling myself :-). So night before last, when I realized my mistake, I sat and frogged all that work -- all fourteen rows of knitting -- Oh Woe is MOI! VBS -- when I screw up I don't do what I call legitimate mistakes -- the sort of thing a beginner would do from lack of experience. No -- I have to do the truly hare brained stuff like increase stitches at only one corner out of four. Then again, it might have made an interesting looking tote bag, to say the least -- LOLOL! Anywhoo, I got everything back in order and sat and knitted last evening and am back to the first row of purple & lilac tweeding. Best part is that, once I got to the first row of lilac & purple, I did the first corner correctly and forgot to increase on the second corner -- AGAIN! Fortunately I was only 4 or 5 stitches along the row when it dawned on MOI that I had screwed up. I went back and fixed the second corner properly and then put the knitting away for the evening. Enough is enough, don'tchaknow?!?!?!?!? CiaoMeow >^;;^<
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