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Knitting and Growling

Posted on 07 April 2005

This afghan I’m knitting is making me (slightly) nuts. I seem to drop a stitch or get off the pattern every few rows. I did great right up until row 17, where I got hung up for a few days, and now I’m equally stuck on row 25, where I can’t seem to figure out how I am losing a stitch. Will *not* do this pattern again once I get this one off the needles!

Update: I didn’t like the way the rough acrylic yarn felt, nor did I like knitting a complicated (to me) pattern in a dark yarn. (Freudian slip, heh-heh: I originally typed “darn” yarn.) I eventually frogged this version, after wrestling with it for a while and naming it the Tinky Brown Hairball Afghan. But I must admit, the pattern was pretty, and it created a fabric with some heft to it — just what I like in an afghan. Will try again someday with another yarn. Perhaps when I have a longer attention span!

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