It’s been a while (2 months!) since I blogged about the Swallowtail Shawl. I ran into some trouble reading the third chart and loading it up into Knit Companion what I love about the program is that I can have the lace chart displayed in one “pane” while right underneath it I have the written instructions for the chart as well. What had me stumped was the way the charts were broken up into 3A, B, C, and D but the pattern said that after the center stitch is worked, the left half of the shawl is a mirror of the right half.
Instead of asking for help, I totally ignored it and did my own thing. Which resulting in not having the right stitch count and a very strange looking shawl. I think you know where this is going…yesterday I finally frogged back down to the end of chart 2. That means I frogged back about 30 odd rows. It was painful.
You can’t really tell here (it’s so hard to photograph unblocked lace) but I still have to do some surgery to make it look nicer and get things back on track. I had to frog hubby’s Riff socks as well. Surprisingly, with all the undoing I’ve been forced to do I haven’t touched the bottle of Jack Daniels we have. Knitting: it’s one row forward, forty rows back. But I shall press on like a good little soldier!
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I feel your pain. I just completely scrapped the socks of doom and restarted because the heel mods weren’t allowing me the right stitch count and I couldn’t find a comfortable place to restart. I’m now on my first repeat after having gone past the heel (in toe up socks a major milestone) in the prior incarnation
Oh ouch! Froggin’ back 30 rows is extremely painful. But we knitters are resilient so medal for you for soldiering on.
I’m sorry that your knitting has been moving in the wrong direction. I hope things improve:)