I declare today a VICTORY

[afuna]

Just finished the body of the right-hand mitten, and the thumbhole is on the right side \o/

(Technically, the thumbhole is on the left side, which is finally right).


I will probably stay well away from any cables for the next $x projects. Well well away -- I had to redo rows several times, more often than I've ever had to redo them before. Doing cables is hard enough: undoing (and then redoing them) is so much more pain. Was trying to finish the mitten by March 18, which is probably why I ended up having to undo and redo several rows' worth of cables over and over again (oh row 48 *fistshake*)

See, this is the mitten for my friend who asked me for one, and I wanted to finish it by March 18 because that is the day she discovers whether she's going to make doctor (she did).

I just need to knit the thumb, which is barely anything, and block it and then arrange a time to meet up and celebrate. I am going to be a day late, but \o/ anyway.

Comments

[james]

Frogging cables is the hardest and most annoying part of knitting, I firmly believe.

[afuna]

I have heard that it is possible to pick up a dropped stitch from a cable without undoing and redoing the whole row (or rows if it dropped down several levels), but I haven't picked up the trick yet *rueful*

The one thing that kept me from cursing out of sheer frustration is that at least the cables were small so I didn't need to juggle a cable needle on top of everything else *g*

[kerravonsen]

I suspect that knitting is one of the things which prompted the saying: More haste, less speed.