Ok, so you know my process? Stupid, stupid process that requires starting a thing two or six times? Yeah, that process. It is a lot less fun when you are doing a bottom-up shawl, where the cast on is 399 motherfucking stitches. And the first row has everloving motherfucking beads. Which, yes, I had to tear out. More than once.

Dear brain,

Cut it the Fuck Out,

love,

lydy

7/26/17: So The Process decided that short rows were a new thing in the world. They’re not, I’ve done them before, but you try arguing with The Process. Which means that I had to restart the short row set three times. This was irritating, but I had a life line with stitch markers in place, so completely possible. (It is much easier for me to make sure I have the correct stitches in place if I can count 12 stitches 21 times, plus the two edges, rather than 267 stitches. It also helps me see the repeats, so I know where to expect the stitches.)

So, that went swimmingly. And then… yeah, I have no idea what I did. Like, literally no idea, since the yarn overs and double decreases were all where the should be, which means the error was extra, extra clever, but when I got to the end of set one, I had the wrong number of stitches, and wasn’t in the right place at all. And so, again, we tear back all the way to the lifeline. With stitch markers. And again, I was grateful that I’d left the stitch markers there.

I have finished Set One of the short rows, Everything is where it should be. Now to Set Two.

Dear The Process, Set Two is just like Set One, there is nothing new here, we do not need to restart. Truly.