Or perhaps this post should be called, “Stupid, Stupid, Stupid”
So here’s how I was reduced to “Despair filled wailing”…
I’m onto the last flower of the blanket….
I’m rushing around, grabbing my knitting, ready to go meet the Guilty Knitters for my Sunday morning knit-fest.
Quick look at the plan to see what flower it is…
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Yep, Yep, it’s a lilac background, purple petalled one…
Quick look at the blanket…yep, yep, that’s the one with no centre but a ring of beads…
I grab the necessary stuff…
I force myself to do the intarsia square, spurred on by the thought that it’s the last one. I really didn’t want to be knitting it. I drew on all my knitterly resolve to keep going…
I showed the Guilty Knitters my new project, that I have foolishly bought and is sitting looking at me, waiting to be started…It made it harder to persevere (More of that when I’ve done the evil Flower Blanket)
I got home, did chores, made dinner, then slogged through the flower, the end nearly in sight…
Something wasn’t right 😐
This is what I was knitting…
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Hmmm…Right colours in the right places….
I looked up and saw the blanket, this square caught my eye…
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“NOOOOOOOOOoooooooooo!”
I had knit the wrong flower. 😥
I wailed, I sore, I threw the evil, cursed, wrong flower down on the sofa and sobbed.
Poor Ben thought I had at least accidentally amputated a limb or garotted a cat. He wisely retreated, quickly, followed by a couple of slightly worried cats.
This is the flower I should have knit…
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Same colours, different flower…
I can’t believe I was so Stupid, Stupid, Stupid 🙁 In the whole blanket that’s the first time I’ve made that mistake.
Nothing for it but to dry my eyes, rip it out and start again on the correct flower…
It kinda took the thrill out of finishing all the squares but I now have 100 squares, sewn together in a 10 x 10 blanket….
Just the edging to work out 😀
Yup – done that one too! I hate those stupid flowers. Its the reason my blanket (that I started nearly 2 years ago) still isn’t finished – it’s because I have TWO more flowers to knit. I just can’t do it. One day I will just grasp the nettle and do them, but there are so many other pretty things singing to me right now…. You know how it is.
I feel for you. At least it was the only mistake, and now it’s sorted! That blanket is going to be a snuggle-fest for the cats before you know it!
Josiekitten – Already is….. *Sigh*
HOORAY! The last square. Looking forward to seeing the finished blanket. Ros
Couldn’t you have fudged it, and duplicate stitched in the white in the center, and ignored the bead placement?
…or are you going for perfection?
You’re almost done, it’s lovely and it will be fabulous when it is completed!
oh no!!! poor you 🙁
dig deep….you’re nearly there!
I would have left it. The Amish people always have a deliberate mistake in their work, as only God is perfect.
YIKES – why does that always happen? One heck of a job though. I can’t wait to see the final result. 🙂
I bet you were gutted. Still the end is in sight and that’s got to be a good feeling