Quick Knit Note

Blargh!!!!!

Ok, so I started the Anthropologie-Inspired shrug last night. Needed something quick and easy, and working on knitting up stash. Actually working out very well, since I'm making it in Jiffy (from the stash) in white. I know, I probably should be sick of white yarn at the moment, but this is very different from the lace and white cotton of I Do. At any rate, it's white because the white short-sleeve cardigan I have is dying, "well-loved," i.e. stretched completely out of shape through years of use. So this is a great chance to use up yarn and make myself a new short-sleeved white cardigan/cover-up that actually fits.

I actually got a good bit done on it yesterday and this morning. Then decided to frog it**. I was knitting it at 12 st/4 in with two strands held together, and it was knitting to the gauge in the pattern, but was resulting in a very thick cloth. Would be very hot in the summer, and not as comfortable. Just wasn't as happy with it. So, hence the frogging.

Have now started over with one strand instead, on 10 1/2 needles (instead of 11s). Going along nicely, except that I was dumb and didn't wind up the yarn as quickly as I was frogging my work. As a result, the Jiffy (nice and fuzzy mohair-like yarn) is sticking to itself as I knit, so I have a pile of white yarn that I'm slowly untangling as I knit. Really, it's brought my knitting to a standstill right now, and I'm untangling yarn instead of knitting it up. All because I got carried away with the frogging and didn't wind it up then as much as I should have. Bah! Stupid me!


**for the uninitiated, "frogging" is ripping out a knitting project. Usually a good chunk of stitches, or in this case, everything I'd done so far. The term "frogging" is because you say to yourself as your pulling out the stitches, "rip-it, rip-it." Yeah, knitting jokes. :)