If you have ever knitted, or crocheted or sewn, or let's face it...glued something together sometimes there comes a moment. It's a sneaky little moment that happens that second right before you slab on the superglue, right before you turn a corner in your crocheted item. It's the moment when you inexplicably know that something is wrong. You know that you've dropped a stitch, you've sewn the fronts together or you've mismeasured. So, you count, you look, you search for that mistake. You check your pattern, you look your instructions over, you even do the unthinkable and put the project down. Step away and give it time to be alone. You come back and count and search and check and still...nothing. No mistake to be found. No error in judgment, glue or stitching.
You forge on. You knit and purl. You double crochet til the end. You glue and sew and surge forward.
BUT, you still have that feeling. That twinge in the bottom of your stomach that tells you something is off. You tell yourself that you counted. You tell yourself that everything has to be fine and that this Nervous Nelly feeling is just silly. You get done with your project and you take a moment to look at your work and evaluate.
It's at this moment that something just doesn't look right. Did I miss something? you ask. You take one final look at your pattern. One final look at the stitching. This is the moment when you realize you worked the entire hat with the wrong size needles. Instead of a 5mm needle, you used a US #5. If you're a knitter, you know my mistake. You know that these are definitely not the same and you curse the difference with me. I have told myself that I'm not the only one who has made this mistake and that I'll certainly not be the last. Even with all this telling myself this or that, that hat still isn't going to fit right.
There's always Christmas presents to give out though...pictures to come on Wednesday.
-Allie
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