pride goeth before a frog

[labellementeuse]

One should never knit really, really late at night, a lesson I re-learned this morning when I unsuspectingly picked up my second nereid fingerless glove. I took a glance at the pattern - I'm on the third row of the first chart. No worries! Away I go...

... but something's not right here. My ribbing is out of time with the pattern - sort of. In fact, the location of my ribbing is alternating with every repeat. What's gone wrong? And more importantly, why didn't I notice last time I was knitting on it, i.e. before I would have had to painstakingly tink three rows?

Sigh. I'm not sure how I failed to notice it. I'm pretty sure the problem is that I forgot to do the pattern set-up row after the ribbing at the bottom. Why? Well... I wasn't exactly reading the pattern. I mean, my first glove came out perfectly and I have the chart memorised, so why would I? Yeah, that's why I shouldn't knit late at night.

Comments

[deutscheami.livejournal.com]

Those are beautiful gloves! Are you using the same type of multi-colored yarn from the photographs?

[labellementeuse.livejournal.com]

Aren't they! I am using a variegated yarn (technical term ;) ) but the variations are much less distinct - it goes from a dark purple, to black, to dark blue/indigo and back. Plus the colour changes are much shorter. So the effect isn't quite the same but (I think!) it's still lovely. Terrific fun to knit, too - just enough pattern work to keep things interesting but not so difficult it can't be memorised and dragged onto buses etc.

[labellementeuse.livejournal.com]

After some poking around, the sock photos at the top of this knitter's flickr (not mine) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/68157412@N00) is knitted in the yarn I'm using (which! For kiwi knitters! Is Boysenberry Jive from the extremely lovely Vintage Purls (http://shop.vintagepurls.co.nz).) I think they're coming out rather nicely :)