Isn't is amazing how far into a project you can be before noticing a giant, in-your-face, how-can-you-not-see-me error?
I like shawls. I usually knit simple triangle or heart shaped shawls in simple stitches. This time I decided to mix it up a little. Mistake number 1. Instead of working the usual triangle shape, top down, I thought let's work the triangle back-and-forth, working top up. After working a garter stitch triangle back and forth I planned to add a simple YO, K2tog edging.
The triangle part started out just fine.
It was going well... K2, YO, knit to last 2 sts, YO, K2, next row Knit, repeat.
About half way up the triangle I think I started doing double increases on each edge because it started to take on more of a heart shape. But it was still fine.
When I was around half way through the ball of yarn I began the edging. A very simple YO, K2tog.
I only have a little bit of knitting time every day so I spent weeks working on this. Literally. Weeks went by without my having a clue what I was doing.
Some of you have already caught it and are laughing the sympathy laugh right now.
I was almost to the end of the ball and was trying to estimate how much yardage I used on each round so I could figure out exactly when to begin binding off.
And then I finally saw it.
I had been knitting the edging onto the neck edge instead of the bottom edge of the shawl. There was no way to turn this into a design element. It had to be ripped out.
Off to the frog pond it goes.
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