I’m working on Imagine When and I absolutely love the pattern, and I really love my yarn: Malabrigo Sock in #855 Aquas (sorry, I haven’t taken any pictures yet). But I’ve dropped the needles TWICE now. The first time I finished 7 of 11 repeats for section 2 before dropping the needle. I was unable to figure out how to fix the little picot edge, kept dropping more stitches, got frustrated, and ripped the whole thing out. After waiting a few days, I cast on again and got all the way to the final repeat of section 2 – only 6 rows remaining – and dropped that stupid picot edge.
I was getting tired and I knew I should stop, but I really wanted to finish that section and decided to just push through. Damn it!
This time I put it aside, and when I get home this evening I’ll try to figure out how to fix that picot. If I can’t, I’ve got to figure out how to do an after-the-fact lifeline because I don’t want to rip the whole thing out again and those stitches are slippery little things.
Poor Chris took the brunt of my frustration after the first mishap. He saw me drop the needle last night and his eyes got really big and I could see his whole body tense up, ready to run for his life. I had to laugh as I set it aside and told him it would wait until tomorrow.
Now I’m wondering if I shouldn’t pick up some wooden needles, just to be on the safe side.
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