you are all terribly concerned, i know.

[fox]

So, the current project. I've got an allover cable in multiples of 28. I'd cast on 118, for four repeats sideways with a three-stitch border on each side, and done three rows of stockinette before starting the cable as the pattern encouraged me to do (it's a plain pattern, but gives options if you want to do fancier stuff instead), gartering the border, and almost immediately wished I'd done garter instead of stockinette at the beginning, and that I'd cast on 120 and had a four-stitch border. Ah well, I thought, bygones.

But then about halfway through the first 36-row repeat of the pattern I noticed what looked like a mistake I'd made. Except it was about two seconds later that I noticed the apparent mistake was on every repeat (horizontally, obvs.), meaning I'd done what I was told and it had turned out funky. I looked at the work, saw that the "mistake" (the goofy thing the pattern made me do) was really only visible on the wrong side, grumbled, and decided to live with it.

Fifteen rows later, I saw that I had made a genuine mistake two rows after the goofy in-pattern mistake.

It was also only visible on the wrong side, but it was on one branch of one cable in one repeat and the other branch of another cable in another repeat, for two different mistakes in four repeats (each of which has two cables in it), and y'all know me, there's no way I could live with that. So I ripped the whole thing all the way back to nothing and began again.

And now I've got my 120-stitch cast-on and my garter border, and I made a note in the pattern so I didn't do the thing that's goofy and looks like a mistake, plus I haven't made any other mistakes have been able to fix other mistakes as I've made them, and I'm back to where I was: one 36-row repeat of the pattern completed, but this time it is perfect.

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[starfish]

I was very excited today to realize that the wrap I thought I was knitting (and was going to have to somehow find more yarn for) was actually a shrug. So instead of being stuck halfway through, I am nearly done (if I'd had the right size Denise-cable at work I could have finished, durn it). And it's my first big lace project, and the fact that I'm using Moonlight Mohair means the several mistakes I made early in the project show hardly at all (because life is too short to frog 4 rows x 90 stitches of mohair, even if you have a lifeline).

Which is my long-winded (gosh, it's late) way of saying I am only a perfectionist sometimes. And I'm really glad this isn't one of those times. :)