How Bad Does it Hurt?

                                                                                             

Ok. What's wrong with this picture?

Imagine the pain of realizing half way up the left front of a cardigan that you totally forgot to add a stripe of yarn along the border. Now, I'm usually pretty good at turning a mistake into a pattern (like when you decide to start stockinette in the middle of a garter) but this one was impossible to justify. So not being able to face the pain of ripping it out, I decided to pick up the shawl project instead.

So I mindlessly  completed a row of K1 YO K2TOG, slowly recovering and reaching acceptance about the pending cardigan RIP-tide - only to realize that it was supposed to be a row of P1 YO P2TOG.

So, what could be worse than having to rip out the cardigan?? How about taking out a row of the shawl that consists of about 25 YO's and 25 K2Tog's???

 

So, here's a nice little pain scale you can print (Click on the picture to enlarge it, and then Right click on picture and choose SAVE AS]  and put on your wall so that when your family finds you slumped over your chair with your half ripped work, you can simply point and moan:

Have a great weekend!

Comments

[maryse]

ha! cute pain scale.

[Theresa]

Too funny - we use them all the time at the hospital.

As for your pain, I'm guessing somewhere around a 7. Am I right?

[Monica]

Ha! I can defintely relate! The cardigan looks like it's going to be adorable, though. It'll be worth a little bit of ripping!

[scribblesnbits]

Oh no. Can you double knit the stripe in maybe or maybe just frog the fun bottomn stuff and pick up the stitches and knit the stripe down?

[Carrie K]

Maybe it'll fix itself in isolation.

The horror! The pain! I love that scale of pain, btw.

[Dipsy D.]

Hi from Austria! Gosh, what a cute pain scale - with my knitting, I'm also pretty often close to #5! But I also think that the cardigan is going to look so great, it'll definitely be worth a little ripping! Good luck with it!