Last Thursday, I discovered I’d made a mistake in one of my squares. Then I discovered I’d made the same mistake in eighteen other squares. Nineteen squares out of twenty – the twenty 9″ squares for my latest blanket. I’ve been working them conveyor-belt style, all the rounds one, then all the rounds two, three, etc, and the mistake was all in round 12.
For most of the squares, that only meant ripping back and redoing one round, thankfully. For eight of the squares, it means ripping back two rounds – and, to make matters worse, I have been trying to be ‘good’ with this blanket and sew in ends pretty much as I go (after I complete each round, I sew in the previous round’s ends). And yes, on these eight squares, I had indeed already sewn the ends in. So I had to cut *weeps* and redo three rows as a consequence.
Needless to say, I was not happy. I estimated it’d take about fifteen hours of work to rip out all those rows and redo them all, and I think that was overly-pessimistic, but it certainly took me another three to four days to correct it all. That plus the work that had been ‘wasted’ because of the mistake meant that I lost probably 7-8 days worth’ of progress on this blanket. Ugggggggggh. Sooooo frustrated with myself. It was a stupid mistake, and it happened because I’m particularly fatigued at the moment, and so I spent all of those three to four days kicking myself for idiocy.
However, I have finally finished those squares entirely. Hallelujah!! And I’ve done it in 30C heat, today – even more of a triumph 😀
And I’m feeling so happy about it that I’m going to let you all have a little peek at the square.
Onwards and upwards! I still have a way to go with this blanket, but I can already tell it’s going to be one of my all-time favourites.
Catherine's Crochet Corner 
Eek! What a pain. Your squares are beautiful and I can’t wait to see the final result.
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I love the colours.
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Well, what I can see is certainly beautiful!
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Will this be a new pattern for us? 🙂 It already looks like it’s going to be wonderful.
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I can’t say anything for certain yet, but watch this space 😀
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Gaaah! You will be glad in the end that you went back and redid them, even though it was so upsetting at the time. I like to sew the ends in as I go too. It’s much easier than doing them all at the end.
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I thought about simply rewriting the pattern – I /could/ have done, the mistake was small enough that nobody but me would ever have known I intended anything different. But I would have known, so I had to rip!
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And you would have always seen it and wished you’d fixed it. Good call. 🙂
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Oh my! I hate when that happens too – that’s usually that time when I throw my project into the corner, throw a temper tantrum (my hubby learned to run and hide then), cry a little and then pick it up again to frog it too. You seem to have handled it better tough 🙂 And as far as I can see (and I am currently tilting my head to see more as if that would help with a pic :P) your squares look lovely ❤
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I don’t know about handling it better – there was an /awful/ lot of swearing going on, loudly and at length!!!
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You poor thing, but I agree you did the right thing and the sneak preview looks fabulous, onward and upward.
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Now that looks very pretty
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Well done and congratulations for your determiantion, perseverance and bringing us beautiful patterns. From what i can see the square looks beautiful and i love the colours. Well done brave lady!
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