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.