Step 1: Find the hole. Two dropped stitches and a nupp of questionable constitution. The nupp stitch totally didn’t go through the nupp, and it was falling apart. Not good!

Step 2: Curse the hole. Bah! Admire your fudging of the lace pattern to make up for the dropped stitches. Marvel at the fact that you didn’t catch this sooner.

Step 3: Open a beer. This can really occur at any point in this process.

Step 4: Conceal the hole. Ladder up those puppies and decrease them toward the top. Not bad. Take some leftover yarn, thread it through the hole, and weave in the ends so that they totally show.

Step 5: Finish beer and take a crappy bathroom mirror photo. Classy!

First there was some lovely Socks that Rock yarn, then a ribby sock. Finally the yarn has a purpose - Badcaul Socks!

I’ve changed the pattern a bit - I did a short-row toe (the pattern called for something different), and added an extra stitch between cable repeats (my gauge was a bit tighter than the pattern). I don’t think that this yarn shows off the pattern too well, because it happens to be the bright green stitches that are the slipped/cabled ones.

Also, I blocked Madli’s Shawl at Amy’s house. I did end up adding right around a foot to the stole, and it’s the perfect length. However, there’s a giganormous hole due to two dropped stitches, which have been stitting there, dropped but stuck to a lower stitch, for a year. Hopefully they won’t be too tough to fix.

I had a big blocking event last weekend (finally, finally washed and blocked the Clapotis), and I dug up a couple of things that I made last year.

The whole wedding thing from last year? Well I decided to knit a stole, Madli’s Shawl from Interweave Knits, to wear with my dress. Big mistake. First, I didn’t know much about laceweight yarns, and I found a great yarn from Habu Textiles that was the perfect color. However, it is quite a bit thinner than the yarn used in the pattern, so I wound up adding more pattern repeats in the width and modifying the border pattern to fit. Then I made the executive decision that I Will Knit the Crazy Nupps. I wound up using a darning needle to do the p7tog for the crazy nupps, which was such a pain in the ass. The thing was blocking 2 nights before the wedding, and then I proceeded to NOT wear it. Awesome!

The thing is really too short to wear, so I’m lengthening it. I have a bit of extra yarn, so I’ll be able to add about a foot to the length.

This baby sweater was for a friend who wound up having a baby girl (and got a Pinwheel Blanket instead). It is the Diamond Seed Baby Jacket from Interweave Knits, knit out of Dale of Norway Baby Ull yarn (which is washable and awesome and actually a dark, forest green). I knit this exactly to the pattern, and I really like the way it turned out. Now if someone I know would just have a boy…