Ok. So I have threatened to post and here it is! I stated knitting a few nights ago a baby blanket for my college roommate Becca. She is due in February so I figured I had plenty of time to learn something new. I made about 10 scarves around Christmas time, which I see Cheryl already filled you in on and they looked marvelous. They were all garter stitch. (Forgive me I am still getting all the lingo down…) So when Cheryl taught me how to purl on my last trip I figured what the heck. Let’s give it a whirl. She created me a very simple what I thought was Erica proof pattern.  Erica proof being simple and easy to follow. I spend all day working and the last thing I want to do is have to knit a seriously complex pattern. So I started the project. I made sure I looked up all the stitches on KnittingHelp so that I knew what I was doing. First 5 rows where fine since they were garter stitch and I am a pro at that. Got to the lace pattern and my first complicated knitting stitch and of course somehow managed to add an extra stitch in there. Little did I know you actually need to count the stitches every time you go through a row in between markers. Silly me, or I would have caught the error. So I went about my business, purled the next row and then started the 2nd lace row. I then realized that I had extra stitches. Un-knit 2 rows… of the 7 complete rows (each row has 159 stitches) worth it?? I ripped it out and started over. Again, started off with a bang and then of course on the first lace row, messed it up AGAIN! This time I was counting along the way so I just had to un-knit only a few stitches, but when I was un-kitting the s2kpo stitch I messed it up dropped a loop and the next thing I knew a big unraveled area of my project. AGAIN ripped it out thinking it would just drive me nuts trying to figure out how to exactly to fix the problem. So they say 3rd tries a charm. I started over for the 3rd time and this time I made sure I reviewed the stitches again on KnittingHelp. Thank god I did. I was doing something wrong. Those videos and of course numerous calls to my DivaKnitting sister saved my project. I will keep you posted on the status of the next couple of lace lines, to ensure I don’t mess something up again!!!

Stay tuned for pictures….