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So anyway I haven’t been able to knit a lot lately, what with the three jobs… I thought I’d stay up late on Sunday to make some headway on a project.  Maybe seeing something come to life in my hands would get me back on track.  On the one hand, I don’t think the store has ever looked better (thank you, Tricia!).  But I needed to break the bad “knitting mojo” as so many of you say.  Well, I made great progress on the Airy Wrap-Around Lace Sweater from Fitted Knits.  And at a point where I was meant to count stitches, I realized that one had gone missing.  Somewhere today it must have happened, but my attention was God knows where.  It was a mistake – a drastic mistake.  And there was no way to correct it.  All that could be done was to un-do.

I frogged about 30 rows of heavy mohair.  I love Etoile, and think mohair is often misunderstood.  It’s not really a Florida yarn, and it’s slippery.  Actually, it’s prickly as yarns go.  It looks all nice and fluffy, very sweet and new, until you start to work with it – then it has a mind of its own.  I saw the missing stitch, that crazy loop that took a header and veered right off the needle and suddenly out of my control.  Too late, but there ya go.  At least knitting is a dress rehearsal – unlike life – and can easily be fixed. 

So today everyone got a look up the wizard’s robes, so to speak.  And the feedback has been on the whole overwhelmingly, “we understand” and “you need a vacation.”  But I’m giving myself a do-over and hope everyone else will, too.  It works that way in knitting, and I like to think that if more people knit the world would be a more peaceful and beautiful place.  Like mohair *before* you actually start to work with it.