Saturday, May 30, 2009

Prairie cabling error found at 11pm

I actually got to sit down in my own home on my own couch to watch TV and knit after eating a home-cooked supper last night. Wonders will never cease. I worked on Prairie and got to the point where you're to divide the fronts for the straps (it's a tank) and got distracted watching Leno's last night on the Tonite Show. When Conan O'Bryan made his appearance and I lost all interest, I started looking at Prairie to place stitch markers where the front neckline dividing decreases will be and found an error. A glaring error:
Prairie



Did you see it? Look closer:
Prairie



Yep, here it is in all it's uncrossed glory, a cable crossing left instead of right:
Prairie



This will cost me 8 rows of ripping back and while keeping track of where I'm at in the armhole decreases. Grrr!

2 comments:

Linda said...

Aahhh - time to learn the "drop the stitches involved in the cross and reknit them" trick. It's worth it!

Michelle Brennan said...

I have done that if the mistake is only a couple of rows back, or it's just a two-stitch cross, but I have found that the further down you go, the more the stitches look "wonky" even if you've put them all back where they go, especially on the larger crossings.