Well, disaster might be a bit of an overstatement but there is at least a setback. I finally cast on about 4 pm on Friday. Good so far. Then when I got to the 12 stitch repeats I hadn’t read ahead to see that Sivia mentions placing markers. I’ m telling you, yarn that sticks like this NEEDS markers. I needed to make sure there were 12 stitches before I started knitting each little repeat. They were almost always there, but sometimes the YO’s and the previous stitch stuck together to make me think otherwise. Which led to lots of tinking and counting.

That was not the real setback though (although it slowed me down a lot). Once I got the markers in there I was pretty much cursing cruising along…except for Saturday night, where after some wine I noticed I needed to count much more often. I thought I might even be able to get so far along by Wednesday, that I would leave the shawl here for my trip, take easier knitting for travel and pick it up when I get back with plenty of time to finish before the closing ceremony. You can even see signs of beautiful diamonds though for now it mostly just looks like boiled ass.

This morning, I needed to take a picture of my weekend progress. That is when I had a brilliant idea. The shawl had started to pile up quite a bit on the current set of circulars which is no problem since I have Denises. Just click on the little extender and slide the stitches over to the longer cable or leave it there to make your own longer cable. I didn’t need to do the later, since I have 42″ and 50″ cables. That is where I got a little lazy. I snapped on the extender and longer cord and casually picked up one end to slide over the stitches.

Bad idea. Apparently I had not securely put on the extender. All my lovely little lace stitches in limbo with no cord to hold them. Only by the annoying quality of the stickiness of this yarn did I have a shot. I am assuming most of the stitches made it back on the needle. I can’t be sure until I tackle the next row, which should be exceedingly fun now.