I conquer tinking!

Woo!

I'm working on the skirt of a dress for the baby. It started out as this pattern, but (unsurprisingly to anyone who knows me) I've been changing it radically. Honestly, this person thinks like a seamstress, not a knitter. Too much seaming. So I did the waistband all in one piece, provisional cast on and then kitchenered it at the end, and then picked up from the bottom and am doing the skirt in the round. I'll work the bodice up from it, then make the sleeves and add them in. The bit at the bottom about bind off, then make this cabled i-cord to approximately the circumference at the bottom and sew it on? Nonsense, I'll do attached i-cord.

Anyway, I was just starting the top of the 5th heart, and got to the end of the row, and had a problem in one of the cably twisted stitches part. I should have had 10 knit stitches in a row between the purl stitches to do the next bit with - I had 9. And I couldn't find a dropped stitch ANYWHERE.

Finally guessed that I must have messed up a TW2R - that starts like a k2tog, then you do another stitch through the first one - and if I'd done only half of it, that would have caused a reduction. I thought I was going to have to tink back 2 rows to fix that. Which would be 520 stitches. AGH.

No! I managed to figure out where the offending TW2R would have been two rows down, trace it up to the one remaining stitch, drop it down two rows to the k2tog, redo that as a TW2R, and then squeeze that up into the next row of K2. FIXED.

Knitting get-together

I went to the monthly knitting get-together at Jennings Street Yarns today. I haven't been for absolutely ages, because I've mostly been too unwell to do anything like that.

I had a really good time. They were all glad to see me again, and congratulatory about the baby. I got the yellow baby sweater seamed on one side, and more than half the edges woven in, and then set it aside because gah, doing that in cotton is frustrating. I'll try to finish it tonight while I still have the technique fresh in my mind.

I got to show off the lace socks I'm working on to some people, and they were admired. I worked on the skirt for the baby dress, and showed it off, and it was heavily admired!

I bought some pretty hand-dyed sock yarn, in a purples and lavenders color. She extended last week's 20% off sale for the knitting get-together people.

When I was about to leave, Linda's husband who runs the store with her was complimenting me on my knitting and the skirt for the baby dress - saying he could see it was my work, that I'm one of the few knitters who he always sees with such even regular tension, and how my stuff always looks that good. Which is a heck of a nice compliment! I tend to forget that I'm as good as I am. But then, bkseiver is generally my basis of comparison, which is hardly fair.

Another knitting compliment

Another knitting compliment I got today - the baby sweater whose sleeves I was seaming up was praised, and they were astonished to find out that bkseiver had started it and I'd taken over and finished it. They couldn't see where the changeover had been.

(My initial mental reaction to this was "well of COURSE not!", but I guess I need to remember that the whole "difference between theory and practice" thing applies most of the time.)

When they were told that she and I knit a couple needles sizes different (she usually goes down a size from the recommended, I typically go up a size), and that she'd pulled the needles out before sending it home with me, they got more astounded, I think.

I'm feeling rather proud of myself and my work today.