I hit the trail early this morning. I'd stumbled through seven rows yesterday and was hopeful I was on the right track and making progress. By light of day though I realized that my knitting wasn't looking like the pictures.
One of the great things about Ravelry is reading other knitter's project notes. I was not to feel stupid for having trouble following this pattern. There were "issues" and I'd stumbled like many others. My first (under-caffeinated) thought was the whole stupid thing was wrong and I was going to have to frog it and start over.
Calm down there, crazysheeplady! I dissected the pattern and notes and
found a couple simple to fix problems and the only big issue was a
missed cable on the back panel.
The Reader's Digest version is that I was able to mark the stitches that were wrong.
Drop just those stitches down.
Cross the cable and pick the stitches back up to the current row. Whew! Fixed and back on the trail by 7:00 a.m. Time to go spring Maisie from the barn!
The view from the back porch. I love snow :-). To have snow here during the the Iknitarod is making it extra fun. They had to truck in snow for the ceremonial start of the Iditarod yesterday :-o.
Maisie comes up on the back porch for some "cereal" in the mornings. She wasn't thrilled about the snow. It gets in the way of grazing!
She's a clever lamb though and found a sheltered snack spot.
I battled through a few other questionable spots this afternoon, but am now up to row 17 and think I'm getting the hang of deciphering the pattern. I hope I'm out of the woods and back on the fast track and hoping to put in a few more miles tonight.
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