MIND WANDERING AND PATIENCE

If you learn nothing else from these pictures, you'll learn how important it is to concentrate and not give up if you have to start over - even if it is 3 or 4 times - ha ha. I am working on the Diagonal Lace Scarf from the instructions Ren gave us - like the beautiful brown scarf she showed us a couple of classes ago. I started out the evening before our last class. I then brought it in to ask Ren a couple of questions before getting started in the "harder" part. THEN, I actually sat down and started the harder part during class - wrong move. I did not thoroughly concentrate and realized later that evening that I messed up. So, I ripped it completely apart and started over. The next time, I got a little cocky and just kept right on going without paying close attention to see if what I was doing was correct. I looked at it and was proud of it - even showed it off to my husband - BUT, I didn't look close. I didn't realize I had made not 1, but 4 mistakes until I went to take a picture of my work in progress - to post it on a wonderful new knitting site: http://www.ravelry.com/, and when I went to take that picture, those 4 mistakes stood out like sore thumbs. SO, I ripped it apart again. THEN, while trying to explain to my husband why I had to keep ripping it apart, I was knitting and talking and MESSED IT UP AGAIN. So, to show this work in progress...........................

This was the first one that I was so proud of until I saw the extra - wandering holes where they shouldn't have been:

Well, you know what this is - one of the many rip out sessions:

And, now, this is the latest of how it should look - I'm taking it very slow and I've explained to my husband if he asks me something or says something and I don't respond - I'm in the middle of a row and I'll talk to him when I finish that row!!!! Oh, and that hole that you see on the bottom right corner IS correct. :-)

The moral of this story is to have patience and don't let having to start over ruin it for you. Just take it out and learn from why you took it apart. Really, I could have kept going with the first one and probably no one would have known about those extra, wandering 4 holes, but I would have and it would have probably bugged me every time I wore it. If I'm going to do it, I want to do it right. And, if it doesn't bother you and it won't alter your project too much, then just keep going. You be the judge.