My most recent WIP arrived on Thursday, but I didn’t get a chance to really work on it until this weekend. At first glance, it appeared to be at the start of the final repeat. I thought I would have it in the mail on Monday.
After running errands on Saturday, which involved at stop at Wal-Mart to get the tires balanced and rotated (where they were playing Christmas Carols over the PA), and another stop at Home Depot to pick up some new light switches for the bathroom (where we ran into this):
GAHHH!
I was feeling a teensy bit grumpy. The Home Depot display was so large that I couldn’t get it all in one frame. It’s not even THANKSGIVING yet people! Quit foisting Christmas off on me two months early!
I sat down with what I was calling Frankenhat to finish it up. Then I looked closely at it. The most recent repeat had one row repeated twice. Actually, it was the two most recent repeats. No problem, I’ll just rip back to the end of the first repeat and do it over. Easy fix. Rip, rip, rip.
I got all the stitches back on the needles, and then I noticed the long floats coming up the inside of the hat. What I had received was not a WIP, but a misfire. Both of these mistakes, which would not be a big deal in civilian knitting, do not past muster in weapons-grade knitting.
I pulled the needle out and finished frogging the hat. I was left with this:
Ammunition
I’m calling the new weapon The Grinch.
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