one step forward, two steps back

I met up with Jeni for dinner and knitting. Jeni is always up for any kind of asian food (or so it seems) so we trolled down South Federal looking for an open asian restaurant (why are they ALL closed on the SAME day?). Saigon Bowl is always a good stand by, and I'm never disappointed (I always share the combination appetizer, 160).

After stuffing ourselves to the gills, we headed back to her house (which has the ever important air conditioning and the cute pup). She liked how my Madli Shawl looks so far, and wanted to start one with some of her super soft handpainted yarn... By the time I met up with Jeni, I had knit the entire border, the garter stitch rows, and a few rows of the center panel. I would show you pictures, but I've ripped it all the way back to the garter stitch rows because I noticed (after almost finishing an entire repeat of the pattern... almost 14 rows) that I had messed up somewhere.

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was what I was thinking when I figured that out... but as some of you know, I obsess a little bit over my mistakes in knitting, and even though I think I've gotten better recently (I can deal with a couple unnoticable mistakes) but the yarn overs were completely off. It looked horrid. So... frog frog frog til I knew I was back on the right track.



Can you all see my nupps? (how come that sounds kind of.... dirty? or is it just me?)

In other exciting news, I got the yarn from Hill Country Yarns! And, though some of my knitterly friends might be disappointed, I will be keeping these socks. I'm not sure if the person who is checking blogs read enough of my posts to know my favored color scheme, but the yarn is blue, green, and white. PERFECTO.

See?


and, just because