Tuesday, October 30, 2007

When bad things happen to good lace

So I had wonderful intentions of showing you the progress on my Icarus. I had made it through the first repeat of Chart 1 and was so proud of myself. Well as the saying goes pride goeth before the fall. Yesterday afternoon I was knitting away when I realized that I was two stitches short. No problem, I entered a lifeline and had only knitted about 4 rows since it was entered. However, I must have missed some stitches when I put the lifeline in. So I go back to my knitting and suddenly I am 5 stitches short. WTF?? So I tried to fix the problem and thought I did - no dice because my motifs were shifted to the left. So I ripped the ENTIRE thing out. I tried to start again last night but I could not make the stitch count work correctly. So I have learned a major lesson through all this - do NOT knit lace (especially your first lace project) when you are sick.

So next entry I hope to have some progress to show you on the Icarus. I will also reveal to you what I plan to do to make sure this blog is updated more often. Until next time ....

1 comment:

knottykitty said...

I can sympathize! My beloved Mermaid Wrap met a similar fate in August! I even wrote a sad tale about the frog pond after it was gone (and that was the SECOND time around....with new yarn! Here's the sad story, if you want to see it...

http://knottykittyknits.blogspot.com/2007/08/cautionary-tale.html

Lace is kind of cruel like that. Hope the next try goes much better! :)