Persistence, wise or otherwise, and things get done. Shifted from double-pointed needles to circular and tada, successful hat. There were even more errors and sloppy writing found in this pattern as I progressed, requiring a lot of re-knitting. I’m calling this done unless I decided to add the bottom band. It will be worked to make sure it does not flare at the bottom though. The pattern is an odd assortment of ribbing, cables, and regular knit stitch, and the author gives no guidelines on how to pick it up correctly. More trial and error I guess. The fun will be digging through my button collection and see what vintage…

No pretty pictures this run. I am finding I need to rip back two projects, and a picture of the snarl of yarn while frogging is just too sad. I have found out the the vest pattern I am knitting has errors on my size, and these errors require me to tear it out to the armholes. It is an Interweave pattern, so this is disturbing, but helps to explain why so few have knit this vest. I was having some troubles with it earlier in the knitting, but decided it was my dyslexia kicking up and just punted my way through. The troubles I am running into pretty much…