Eesh.

I’ve been working steadily on a Rogue for Booger, and it’s been kicking my ass. Mostly because I’ve been tired and stressed and not paying enough attention. Hem to armpits went pretty smoothly, and things just went to hell from that point on.

I had finished the front from the armpits up to one of the shoulders, and was starting the other side of the neck when I realized that I had been doing all of the damn decreases backwards, so instead of a smooth line, it was all jaggedy and totally not working for me. So I tore the whole top half of the front out and redid it.

Then, over the weekend, I realized that as I was nearing the top of the hood, where the cable is all fiddly and wide and complicated and you actually have to pay some modicum of attention to the charts, that I had, WAY back down just above where the hood joins the neck, crossed one of the cables the wrong way. ON BOTH SIDES. FFS. So, yeah, you guessed it. RRRRIIIIPPPPP.

I’ve managed to get about half of what I ripped out reknit, carefully checking the damn cable crossings every row to make sure I’m not screwin’ it up again.

And just ‘cos I’m way too lazy to look back through the old posts, just in case I haven’t mentioned the Booger’s Rogue before, she saw mine, and desperately wanted me to make her one. I looked around for the perfect yarn for it for a couple of months, and tried to decide if I wanted to try and do the math to make it smaller in the same gauge as the pattern is written, or if I wanted to make it up in a finer gauge yarn at a smaller gauge. I opted for the finer gauge yarn (Peace Fleece sport weight in Kamchatka Seamoss) and leaving the pattern exactly as written. So far it’s working beautifully, and the test fitting last weekend went well. She was not groovin’ on the texture of the totally unwashed Peace Fleece, until I showed her my Everyday Cardigan that’s been washed a couple of times, and is ohmygod soft.

If I can just keep from screwing anything else up on it, I should have it done by the time she gets down here this weekend. Which would totally rock. Mind you, I was too tired and in too much pain* to do diddly with it either last night or this morning, and haven’t done much of anything since I got home today other than take ibuprofen and a nap, but… yeah, hopefully I can get it done. We’ll see.

*Hugo wasn’t the only one with issues this weekend. I managed to totally hose my back by being an idiot and picking up a VERY heavy basket of laundry by, you guessed it, bending at the waist… Who says stupid doesn’t hurt?

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