A list of rules! Granted, I don't have a whole list for you today. Just a rule that I applied (uncharacteristically) last night, and I'm so glad I did. So here it is, (ta da!) rule #1 in the Tightly Knit Rule Book:
1. No frogging after 11 p.m.
While I'm at it, here's rule #2:
2. Always, always, always have an unfinished scarf or sock (or three) handy to make it even conceivably possible to adhere to rule #1.
This morning, I see that the hideously stretched out edge stitch on the right front of my current project is not the result of a mistake in laddering, reladdering and then, for good measure, laddering again both of the twisted stockinette stitch stitches adjacent to the slipped edge stitch all the way down to the cast-on edge. No, my dear daughters, it was the result of being stretched out. And as every modern knitter (post Stitch and Bitch, that is) should know, it is in our power to wrestle stretched out stitches into submission.
So why am I displaying the "wrong" side of my edge? Because, dear girls, that is where the slipped edge stitch rolls to hide in this ingenious edge treatment. And don't they all look remarkably even and under control? It is wonderful to have this power. And I'd have never felt such joy if I had done what seemed like the only logical next step last night when it was past my bedtime and frogged the damn thing. I'm not saying these are the world's most even stitches, but they are fine.
And just to leave you with a little eye candy, here's what the front side looks like.
Knit on!
Judi
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Update -- have laddered those two columns of stitches next to the right edge about four more times in the past 36 hours. I think I've finally got it right. The twisted stockinette stitch I'm supposed to be using is only twisted on the knit side, but when I took this scan, I had twisted every stitch as I laddered back up. I think it actually looks nicer, but I'm pretty slavishly following the pattern on this puppy, so I fixed it.
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