YEAH! The ribbing is DONE!!!!

I finally finished the ribbing for the front and back of the sweater. It ended up coming out at exactly 20 rows of ribbing....now for the body! WOOHOOO!!!

Plain Vanilla Sweater Hell

My Plain Vanilla Sweater from KnitPicks is on my last nerve. I screwed up and couldn't stand it any more. So it got frogged. Here's my Ravelry entry:

Cast on 98 st on size 10 Clover Bamboo needles using the cable cast on. Knitting the ribbing with size 3 Clover Bamboo needles as per pattern (size 5 gave me gauge). STRIKE THAT! Cast on long tail 3 more times as Richard kept coming in needing help with his German homework and I'd lose count. FINALLY I have about an inch of ribbing done. I had so much left over on the long tail cast on that I knitted the tail in the whole way across the bottom. I have to remember to do that for the front to so that they will be the same.


I ended the ribbing and then did a knit row. This is what possibly caused a strange line on the stockinette side. I *HAD* planned on having the 'regular' stockinette side as the outside of the sweater, but I really hate this line. Also, the Reverse Stockinette isn't as ugly as I thought it would be. I've always hated RS/Garter stitch items. There are VERY few things that I like that is made using those stitches (BSJ is one of them)...but I think the yarn is what makes the difference on this.
The purled line above the ribbing drove me nuts, but I didn't want to waste all that work. But then I'm back on Weight Watchers (that happened the day after my son's wedding pictures came in!) so I am going to frog it and make it one size smaller.

Cast on 88 st onto size 10 bamboo needles. Transferred the st to the size 5 circs (I couldn't find the size 3 circs....the 10s were too tight to knit off of and I didn't feel like transferring twice...which is what I would have had to do if I would have transferred to the 3 needles) and knit onto the 3s for the ribbing.

Grrrr!!! After counting 3 times, how do I end up with 89 st on the needles????????? I am NOT going to rip it out and cast on again! I knit the last 2tog! GRRR!!

Ok...I guess I WILL rip it out and cast on again! I knit onto the size 5s instead of the 3s. I'm SOOO ready to just burn the whole darned thing!!!

5/14/2008 Ok...here we go again. I cast on EIGHTY-EIGHT stitches last night instead of burning it. I just counted them AGAIN as I put them onto the size FIVE circs. I have tripled checked that the needle that I am using to knit onto is a THREE. UG!

So I actually counted up to 88 CORRECTLY! Go figure!! AND, seeing as though I'm never happy unless I'm living dangerously and tempting fate, I have decided to make things much more complicated by having to count to 88 TWICE IN ONE NIGHT!!! OMG! I figure that if I can make it thru the cast-on that it must be too easy, so I'd better make things more fun by knitting the front and back at the same time. So, out came the KnitPicks Options Size 3 47" to really liven things up. The slippiest, sharpest needles around with this splitty, slidey yarn. That ought to make my life a little more interesting!! Yeah, right.

Back to knitting..........

I have done some really stupid things in the past few days. Things that hurt numerous people........and, luckily, I walked away unscathed. Hopefully, anyway.
Taking several bottles of pills can really screw you up............physically. Of course, that's not to mention how screwed up you are MENTALLY before you take them!!!!
I have to learn the following
IT'S NEVER OK TO HURT ANYONE....EVEN MYSELF
I need to get that tatooed on the back of my hand or something.

So now I'm out of the hospital....back home...feeling better (which is usually how the cycle of abuse to others and selves goes)..........but I want to feel better for GOOD and that's what I've got to work on
IT'S NEVER OK TO HURT ANYONE....EVEN MYSELF
So, I'm not sleeping, of course, as I'm not touching another sleeping pill for a long time.
So I'm knitting.
I started Jim's Tofootsie Socks at least a month ago, but they've fallen by the wayside when I found a mistake in them. Then, I even forgot what the mistake was!
So tonight, I pulled them out and after long examination found the mistake....1 stitch too many on one of the socks. So I frogged it (I was only about 6 rows into the sock past where the short row toe comes together, so it's no big deal) and now I am re-knitting this sock.
And...um....I guess that's why we should take notes when we are knitting.....right.
Um, how many stitches did I leave on the needle before I started closing up the toe.
And did I do the encroachment method, Aloha method, or wrap....no....I'm sure I didn't wrap them.
UG!
Stupid me for not taking notes.
And IT'S NEVER OK TO HURT ANYONE....EVEN MYSELF!