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Amelia’s Afghan

I’m sure I’ve previously mentioned that I’m knitting an afghan for my daughter from the companion pattern book to “The Shop on Blossom Street”. Well, it’s my first pattern with lace…meaning lots of ssk, psso, and yo. This particular pattern has 4 lace sections across and they are identical. So I knit to marker, work lace pattern, knit to marker, repeat.

Last night I decided to work on it some while watching the Food Network awards. :) I got all the way across my row, worked the next row, then got half way across again and realized something wasn’t right. Once I work the lace, I have 17 stitches on the needle. Somehow I messed up and had less stitches than I should making it impossible to proceed. That’s what I get for not paying attention to what I was doing when I began my lace work. I was doing the bitchin’ part of my stitch n’ bitch. LOL! So I ended up having to frog about 4 rows back to the last row before my lace pattern begins. What a pain! This is the first time I’ve ever frogged multiple stitches/rows at one time. I usually go back one stitch at a time, so I don’t have to worry about dropped stitches, but that would have sucked! So I used some scrap yarn and a yarn needle and just weaved the scrap into the stitches all the way across. Then I realized, of course, that all my stitches where twisted. Now, I could have stitched them up and straightened them as I went, but for a novice (which I still consider myself, even after 3 years of so-called knitting) that would have been too difficult while also trying to work the lace. So I went across and straighten my stitches. Which meant weaving (1st pass), putting back on needles (2nd pass), straightening stitches (3rd and 4th pass), then trying again. In the end I did a lot of work on my afghan last night, but didn’t really get any farther along. LOL! But even with all that hassle, I’m enjoying the process. The lace pattern really keeps things changing, so it doesn’t get so boring doing a million rows of st st. Maybe that’s why I enjoy lace crochet so much…the pattern constantly changes.

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