i was stuck with MS3, where i couldn’t complete rows in the 60s without error and I had to fall back to my lifeline on row 61 so many times… then I finally got past that roadblock on Wednesday, made it all the way up to 79 before getting distracted by something shiny, then today I picked it up again and made it to 85, whereupon I stopped to admire my work, spread it out and admired the pretty pattern and how all the nice yarnovers made such neat… lines… hey… wait a second… dammit!

i don’t know what i was doing in the second half of row 75, but it was NOT the pattern as written. it was not just, like, one missed yarnover. it was, as michael suggests, a freestyle jazz interpretation of the patterns, with yarnovers and decreases sprinkled wherever I had felt they might like to go. Or something. At any rate, it was completely, utterly, and egregiously wrong. The only way it could have been more wrong would have been if I had randomly picked up another ball of yarn and started knitting from it instead.

Maybe I should have continued knitting after drinking. I would really feel better about frogging 15 rows if it was because of drunkknitting instead of some sort of random dumbassery.

So depressing. At the rate I’ve been making progress on this project, that’s about 3 hours of work I just wiped out. I’m never going to make it to Clue 2. :( Meanwhile, everyone else is up at row 300-whatever and can’t wait for the next clue to come out. I could seriously just cry.