Cable Repair

I don't know what's been going on with the (scant) knitting I've been doing the last few days, but I clearly have only been knitting with half my mind tuned in.

I sat down last night to do a few rows on my 'Must Have' while the boys scampered about in a PlayHut tunnel in front of me putting space capsules (plastic easter eggs) in place to make the tunnel have enough fuel to launch. (The four-year-old has quite the imagination.) I knit two rows, and then looked at the start of the next row to find my Irish Moss was off. Clearly I'd forgotten to shift the stitches a few rows earlier. So, I carefully picked back each of those first 18 or so stitches to correct and repair the Irish Moss. Luckily, I love seed stitch, and Irish Moss is really a double or elongated version, so it was a good fix. I was glad I'd tuned into what I was doing when I did rather than when the front was complete!

Zoom forward a few more hours, and, both boys finally conked out, I pulled out my cabled Koigu project to work on Matthew's hat while watching the final episode of Season 1 of Monarch of the Glenn. I zipped around two rows only to look down and find that knitting gremlins had again been at work. The first cable "wasn't." Apparently I'd forgotten to do the cable there.

I peeled back the appropriate number of rows and picked up just the stitches involved to correct the cable. After working my way back up the ladder of dropped stitches for the 6-stitch cable, I was feeling quite proud of my repair only to find the same exact problem 9 stitches later. That I "forgot" to do the cable twice in a row is really odd. Again, the repair went well. I'd never tried a cable repair before. I probably would normally have just dropped all the stitches and picked the whole thing back up. But, not this time.

As it turns out, last night's repairs were probably karma's way of preparing me for today.

I had a second to grab a few rows of the 'Must Have' and found that my Panel A had a problem 8 rows back. Yikes. Panel A involves 9 stitches. I didn't actually forget to cable in this case. What happened (apparently) is that on row 3 of Panel A, I did a C3F rather than a C3B, so the cable didn't twist properly. 8 rows felt pretty hairy to fix since that meant having to use dropped ladders to re-do 2 cable rows rather than just 1. But the repair went well. It felt tedious, but it worked. (And Spencer slept in my lap through the whole thing! Every time he stirred, my heart would sink as I envisioned all the stitches being lost forever and me having to start over!)

So, hopefully, no more repair work. I guess I've just been preoccupied. But I'm feeling 'repaired' out for now.

The Easter Bunny was good to me (as always). My mom sent me two skeins of KnitPicks Shimmer (lace weight) (and cherry cordial eggs!). It's beautiful, and I've been wanting to order some ever since they introduced their own line of yarns. I've oohed and aahed over the colors. So, I'm thrilled to have some. It feels luscious. And I have lots of ideas for how to put it to good use after I clear off a few of the things I have started.