Frogging

I did a lot of knitting last night. I knit on my mystery stole from 6-7, and then I went downstairs to work on my baby blanket (which is coming along so fast and even though it's very basic, I love it) and watch the Yankees (who won, yay!) and after the game I took up my stole again. And a couple of rows into it I had the wrong number of stiches. I couldn't figure out where I had gained one, so I started tinking back. And then something happened. I took out the closest life-line in an attempt to pick the stiches back up (I know, stupid) and that didn't work. So I had to rip back to the previous life-line (I put them in pretty often, at every new border bead row) and then pick the stiches back up. It wasn't easy. Or pretty. I think I may be back on row 71 or so, and I'm not sure if I'm going to try it again tonight. Even with the ripping I did make some progress last night, which was good. But I think I've learned my lesson, no lace right before bed, I'm too tired not to fuck it up.

In other frogging news, I tried to add the crochet border on my Soleil tank last weekend. And I realized that little holes I made while decreasing along the right strap become much more obvious when I crochet into them. It actually is a cute effect and I'd keep it, if the left side matched. It doesn't. I think I know what I did wrong though - before I started Branching Out I assumed that SSK was the same thing as Sl1K1PSSO. It's not. So I think I'm going to rip out the right strap and reknit it using the correst SSK. Maybe that will prevent the holes. Of course, I'm not entirely sure when I'm going to do this...maybe before next summer?

Post the First

I have no stash. Ok, that's not entirely true. I have two (or possibly three) skeins of Manos de Uruguay cotton in a pretty purple and two cones of ColourMart silk in cobweb weight. Apparently this is nothing. Having read through the entirety of Yarn Harlot's archives, as well as Wendy's, I realize that something is missing in my life. And that's stash yarn. I have no stash yarn.

Oh, wait, I just remembered. I have 10 or 11 balls of Rowan Calmer that I had intended to make my first sweater with. But I then abandoned that project because I was too scared to make a full on sweater and made a Soleil shell instead. Which is almost done. So maybe I shall actually start that Rowan sweater this time.

But still. My stash is pitifully small. And perhaps some would consider this to be a triumph of actually finishing projects and an economical use of my yarn budget (although honestly I don't really have a yarn budget, I just buy yarn when I start a new project and whince when I see the price tag). But now I want to have a stash. I want sock yarn of many colors. Which means I should probably learn to knit socks.