Today, sadly, I have actual unraveling. Well. Let me clarify . . . there is unraveling to do. I haven’t actually done it yet but . . . see for yourself:

My finished Stopover 2.0

At first glance, all appears to be fine. But wait. Take a look at that upper left.

Here. I’ve circled it for you. Damn.

Let’s flip it over and see if that was just one repeat out of wack.

Nope. The entire frigging thing is off.

And it just gets worse.

Sigh.

When I was knitting I had one row where things were a little weird. The decreases didn’t work out but I counted when I finished and I had the correct number of stitches. I looked at the color work and thought it looked fine so I just kept going. I was so close to finishing and I wanted to be done. It wasn’t until I blocked it that I saw the errors and once seen, well, they cannot be unseen.

I’ll be fixing it at some point but not right away because deadline knitting.

Reading, thankfully, is going much better than knitting, at least in terms of forward progress. This week I finished One Day in December and The Red Address Book. Next up? The Dakota Winters.

What are you knitting and reading this week? Be sure and hop over to Kat’s to see what our fellow unravelers have been doing.

P.S. Thank you all for your lovely comments yesterday. I promise I have no intention of discontinuing the blog!

 

 

 

 

Happy Wednesday! Happy Hump Day! And, best of all Happy Spring!

In other happy news, my Stopover 2.0 is mostly finished. I just have to close up the underarms, weave in the ends, and block it. The irony of finishing a super warm sweater just in time for spring isn’t lost on me. Also pictured are my current socks, a gorgeous rainbow of stripes from Knitterly Things. I’ve had a bunch of meetings lately so these beauties are chugging right along.

On the reading front, I recently finished My Sister the Serial Killer and I’m poised to start One Day in December. I’ll do a complete reading update soon.

To see what everyone else is reading and knitting be sure and visit Kat today.

I was hoping to have a finished Stopover to show you today. Alas, the photo you see does not look very different from the last one I showed you. It is, in fact, different though.

The body is longer.

Do you know how I got the body to be longer?

Wait.

Do you know why the body is longer?

Because I was on Ravelry updating the details on this sweater and I went back on the blog to check out the one I made 3 years ago and right there, in my own words, it said:

I also added a couple of inches to the length.

Guess what I didn’t do this time? And yes, I had already attached the sleeves and knit about an inch and a half.

So.

Rip back.

Knit two more inches on the body.

Reattach sleeves.

Move forward.

I’ve still got another inch of the shoulders before I start the decreases for the yoke and the colorwork.

It’s all good, though, because I love it and it will be finished and worn very soon. I hope.

I am reading The Museum of Modern Love and I’m enjoying it tremendously. I predict that I will be finished with the book before I am finished with the sweater.

That’s just how things roll around here.

If you want to see what everyone else is reading and knitting this week be sure and check out Kat’s blog today.

No unraveling here, just knitting round and round on my Stopover 2.0.

I love my original Stopover from 2016 and I’ve always meant to knit another one. In fact, I’ve had the yarn for two since I knit the first one. I love the neutral gray, black and white of this new one and I’m hoping to have it finished within a week or two.

As for reading, I’ve been waiting to start Kingdom of the Blind and was basically holding out for when I didn’t have anything from Overdrive and this week that’s what happened. I’m loving this latest trip to Three Pines, I will say that.

That’s my reading and knitting for this week. Be sure and check out what everyone else is reading and knitting over at Kat’s.