This is why I should count.

I'm the type of person who doesn't count. Once I get into patterns I know where things go, so I just get lazy and don't bother. Well last night while working away on my Jaywalker I said to myself, I really should count, that way, if I do mess up, I'll catch it two rows later when I do the pattern repeat rather than much further along. So I started counting. The first row I counted, was off by a stitch. But how could that be? I screwed up. Yup. I forgot to increase at the very end of a row way back when (which probably explains why the sock just looked a bit odd at that point).

So how will I solve this dilemma of mine? Just one word for you: Rip. I know I could have just increased twice in that row, but it would have thrown off the pattern and annoyed me for the remainder of the socks. That and I would be haunted by the error everytime I wore the socks, so I'll be taking it apart and re-knitting. I've already ripped a few rows, how much farther do I need to go? I placed my spare needle right across the row where the mistake is. I thought about running a piece of string through, pulling out the needles, and just ripping away till I got to my row, but I'm worried I won't be able to tell quite where the row is. The small stitches (not to mention all the slants) just make me a bit uneasy so I'll be un-knitting them. I was so proud of how far I'd gotten. I really must remember to count. That's what did me in on the pink purse to. I didn't notice that I was two stitches off until several rows later. There was a mistake in the pattern, but I would have caught it earlier had I been paying attention.


In other news!

I changed my layout. I was getting a bit sick of the green. I also added some of the blogs that I read into the side bar. Of course I read far more than what is listed there. I have over 60 in my bloglines account and I read all of them. Now that I think of it there are several I really enjoy that I forgot to put up there so I'm going to go fix that.