I should know better. Really, I should.

Went to SnB tonight. Brought the lace wrap to work on. BIG mistake! I cannot, under any circumstance, knit anything that involves a yarnover while talking. (is this a common problem among knitters?)

About 10 minutes after I arrived, I found my first mistake. No big deal, right? I can fix it - no problem! And, after about a half hour, I did get it fixed. (Thanks to Caitlyn & her teeny tiny crochet hook!) So, I kept right on knitting. And talking.

Right before I was about to leave, I spread out my work, and realized that I missed a YO on my last row. Again, no big deal. I grabbed a stitch marker pin, and marked the mistake to fix when I got home.

When I got home, I figured I’d document my silly mistake, so I took out the camera, laid out my knitting, and saw this:

Do you see where I missed the YO? Right above the green pin? Probably not, because of the BIG HOLE to the right of the pin. Holy crap! Where did that come from? I think that one of my stitches must have completely slipped off my needles while I was yapping away. Dang. I’m not even going to attempt to fix that one by dropping stitches!

Next thing you know, I’ve got this mess to contend with -

It’s a blurry picture (dark living room), but all that’s important is the lack of a needle in the general proximity of the yarn. Yikes. None of this stitch-by-stitch frogging stuff for me. I’m a ripper!

8 rows of ripping, 4 rows of knitting, and about an hour later, I’m back to about the same point I was before SnB.

Ah, progress! But, I’ve learned my lesson - from now on, lace projects are banned from SnB. That will be my stockinette night instead!