Erica’s Blog

I’m an idiot.

First, I got distracted by the music I was listening to while I was knitting and had to restart my Gioia twice.

Then, I was having so much fun knitting along in the pattern that I totally forgot I was only supposed to knit the second section for six inches or so.  When I finally remembered, stopped, and measured it, it was 13 inches long!

Then, I attempted to frog it back to six inches and pick it back up again.  Hahahahahahaha!  You’d think I’d know better than that.  Of course, I missed a stitch and didn’t realize it, so the decrease section was all wonky. 

Sooo, of course, I had to go back and just frog the whole thing and start over again.  Nana and Auntie couldn’t believe I was starting all over again (you have to realize that Nana’s first knitting project ever was a perfect sweater for Poppa that he still wears, 35+ years later).  I said, “It’s OK.  I know what I did wrong, and it will be better this time and easier to do.”  What else was I going to say?  “It’s OK.  I’m an idiot, and I’m really feeling like an idiot b/c this is supposed to be an easy pattern, and I keep screwing it up, so must be a REAL idiot”?  I couldn’t say that!  I was with my family, for cryin’ out loud.  Someone might have AGREED with me, and then what would I have done?

All that said, I really do love this pattern, and I love knitting it with the Silk Garden.  I have to devote some good time to it and get it done soon, though.  It matches my new pink dress perfectly, and the dress is so boring (imagine a very plain crew-necked 3/4 sleeve t-shirt; now make it a really long dress) that it needs something to jazz it up.  Of course, it’s due to rain all weekend, so I doubt I’ll be wearing the dress on Sunday, so what am I thinking?  Oh, I’ll find an excuse to wear it…