Knitting Again

A little over a week ago I was knitting on the front of my Sunday Morning pullover and over about a half hour, I made 76 mistakes.  This is not too much of an exaggeration.  I added random yarn overs in the middle of stockinette, I forgot decreases, I did the decreases wrong (the decreases in this sweater are super fancy and a design element), and basically spent a lot of time making and trying to fix mistakes.  I powered through and finished knitting the front though.  After putting the remaining live stitches on a holder, I spread out the front to give it a look and there, right in the front, just a little below what will become the neckline, was a dropped stitch.  I must have caught a wisp of the stitch because it hadn't continued running down, but this was something I'd need to deal with.  I stuck a stitch marker in it to keep it safe and put away my knitting for a while.  There was just too much going wrong in my brain to deal with this right now.  I could spin, so I spun and the knitting could wait until my mind had the space to deal with it.

Earlier this week I decided the best thing to do with the front would be to frog back to below the dropped stitch and re-knit the top portion of the front.  If it had been on the back, I probably would have woven in a bit of extra yarn to stabilize it and camouflage it and called it a day.  I have long hair, no one would have ever noticed it, and it would have been fine.  Being on the front, just below the neckline, it was super obvious.

I sat down on a sunny day when I was well caffeinated and found the decrease row just below the dropped stitch.  (You can see my bright green marker above holding the dropped stitch.). By using a decrease row for my pick up row, I could figure out which row I was on and still have a front that would match the back - kind of important for seaming purposes.

Using a smaller needle, I carefully picked up along the row.  (It's easier to do this with a smaller needle than the one originally used to knit the row.)

Now that I had a safety line in the knitting, I could start frogging.  I'm now ready to re-knit the top of the front, correctly this time.  I plan to work on this in a well caffeinated and alert state and only for a little while at a time.  Hopefully, it will go much smoother the second time.

Just to verify that I could still remember how to knit, I cast on for a Nuvem yesterday.  This is my project for ESK's Q2 KAL and I'm using Malabrigo Silkpaca in Paris Night.  I realized when I was picking projects for this KAL that I needed something pretty simple.  (Have you noticed that most people on Ravelry are either knitting super simple and easy projects or complex, involved feats of knitting power that require 110% of their concentration?  I don't see a lot of middle of ground at the moment.  I'm in the simple camp.)  Nuvem is all stockinette.  Miles and miles of laceweight stockinette.  I've gotten started and fortunately, it's going pretty well so far.

I haven't forgotten how to knit!

Have a great weekend, stay safe, and wash your hands!