I needed to start the Lotus Blossom Tank for OtherMom, and had knitted at least 5 swatches, then cast on the 280 stitches required (now I remember why I knit socks!), then knitted the first entire round and started on the second, before stupid me remembered that when you long-tail cast on,  your first round is already knitted, and if you want garter, you purl first.  Whoops!  I could have ripped it out, but for some crazy reason the idea of tinking back 280 stitches sounded better than ripping and re-casting on.  Don’t ask me why – I did that enough when I was halfway back.  But I persevered.  And started again.  7 rounds in, I dropped something (probably a SK2p2?  Slip 2 as if to K2 together, then knit the next one, and pass the 2 slipped stitches over.  It’s a booger, and there are lots of them.  We may hence refer to this as the Booger Blossom Tank!), and couldn’t recover – I suddenly had these long strings of unsalvageable stuff.  I knew there was no saving it, so I ripped the whole sucker out.  But – not before pulling out the needles and measuring it, since that would be the wise way to go, and for once I was being smart.  Supposed to be 48 3/4″.  First measurement – 48″.  Pretty good.  Picked it up, gave it a good shake, measured again (as I hate to swatch and wash and block, though I may have to for this), and it was now 56″.  Whoops!  These are the dangers of cotton.  Now the whole thing is ripped back out, awaiting a nice long weekend to swatch, wash, and block.  Have I mentioned I hate blocking even more than swatching?  Also, in this heat and damp weather, the swatch may never dry.  So – more sweater deviation may occur this week.  I’m still ignoring the Lace Wing sock, and it really hasn’t progressed from last week when I took a picture – the Fixation (and lace pattern in Fixation) is really bothering my hands, so I’m still playing with Step sock #2.

OK, off to cook a semi-healthy dinner for my family before I go off to ignore them at Knit Night!

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