I’ve been neglecting Lilin’s scarf a bit. I’m frustrated with the width of it (too wide, IMO). I’ve sort of decided to reknit it, but considring how much of a tangle the yarn got into previously, I don’t want to frog it. So I’m going to find the other ends of the yarnballs and start knitting from there, then frog as needed in attempt to keep the yarn tangle-free. We’ll see how that goes.

In other news, the scarf for my sister is almost done. Actually I was 99.9% finished with it earlier today, until I ran into a problem.

I made it to the end of the 1st skein of yarn for my sister’s scarf, and decided it’d be long enough as is, so decided to bind off instead of making it longer. So I look at the tail and convinced myself that I could get one more row and still have enough to cast off. (since this is my 3rd FO, I don’t know why I thought that - def not an expert yet…) So I finish my row and get maybe 2/3 to the end of the binding and yup, not enough yarn. So I try to rip back to the beginning of the row. Well, apparently I twisted something about three stitches in and couldn’t figure out how to get the yarn to just zip right out. So I pull the needle out and futz a bit and manage to lose a few stitches. Finally I get the end to cooperate, but since I’m in a black block I can’t figure out what’s going on so I rip that row out too. Almost get it back on the needles and realize I have too many stitches, so I try to fix a dropped stitch and figure out why I still have too many stitches on the needle. Frog a few more rows. Again, get nowhere.
So I grab my massive stitch-holder (it’s about as long as the needle), jump down to the orange row, and weave it in and out of the knitting so I have a row correctly on something before I rip. Apparently I misgrabbed something cuz the last two stitches didn’t want to play nice. Figured I must have grabbed from the next row up and stuck it on the needles and finally got it back into place.

I spent a good 1 1/2 - 2 hours knitting the last two blocks, and a good 45 min- 1 hr fighting with it to fix it. *sigh* but that’s ok, at least this time I know to stop and not try to fit one last row in…