one step forward - two steps back!

argh! it has been one of those knitting weeks! i seem to be on a roll until i forget to pay attention to what i am doing and discover several inches later that i have made an error! argh!i spent 3 hours one evening trying to carefully correct an error by undoing several stitches for about 10 rows. i managed to complete this task but it just didn't look 'perfect' so i called it a night and, wouldn't you know, this dominated my nightly dream! argh! the next morning as i attempted to clean up this area i discovered another error so i frogged the entire sweater, which i am knitting in the round, three full inches!! typically that wouldn't seem like much if i was knitting with worsted weight yarn on size 8 or 10 needles but this is skinny yarn on size 3 needles! another argh!!

i picked up the stitches and went on my knitting way and after knitting about another inch, low and behold, i found another error! argh again!! so again i frogged, picked things back up, and went on my merry way, only to repeat this whole process for a third time!!

so.... at this point i am not feeling that nirvana and trance like state that knitting supposedly creates. to top the whole thing off, on my yarn harlot calendar, the purl of wisdom for the day dealt with this specific subject:

"Lots of knitters decide whether or not to fix an error in a piece of knitting by using the galloping horse theory. That's to say that they don't correct any mistake you wouldn't be able to spot were you on the back of a galloping horse."

and there in lies the rub: i can't seem to let sleeping dogs lie - in other words, i can't leave a mistake that i have knowledge about in my project! never have been able to and apparently, never will. as dave berry says: "There is a very fine line between 'hobby' and 'mental illness'."

don't i know it!!