Wednesday, October 11, 2006

One stitch forward, two stitches back

I went to New Orleans last weekend! Unbelievably, I brought my camera but I somehow managed to forget to carry it in my pocket as my friend John and I ate amazing fried food, walked the strangely underpopulated streets, and visited with a community group in a neighborhood that's struggling to rebuild. I didn't even snap a picture of the swing on John's front porch, where I spent several hours knitting that damn camisole on Sunday morning.

Here's the damn camisole before I left:


And here's the damn camisole after I got back:

And this is why I'm going to have to knit it one more time to get it right:


Check out the funky decrease (hint: the angled section leading off to the right of the middle triangle at the top should be the same size as the angled section leading off to the left, next to my fingers). Ouch. There are other mistakes, but it's not worth going into them. The Lazy Kate really hates "frogging" back on stuff. I mean, these stitches are hard enough to figure out knitting normally, but trying to undo several rows and piece everything back together?? I don't have enough ibuprofen in the house to even try. I'm glad to see that I'm in good company on this (and while I'm linking to my favorite blog, I should also mention that in the midst of a bad week and depressing news headlines, this post from the Yarn Harlot just made my day!)

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