I’m now officially finished the left front piece of the Enchanted Forest cardigan. I was almost finished at 4pm this afternoon, but then…well..my brain decided to kick in.

See, I was looking down at the stair-steps of all my BO rows (I’d forgotten to slip the first st of each BO section) and thought that there must be some better way. Then I remembered short row shaping for doing a 3-needle BO for the shoulders. “How clever of me!” I thought. Sure I was on row 134 of the 136 row piece. It didn’t matter, I’d just rip a few rows and start over at the beginning of the BOs.

So I frogged down to row 112, then tinked back to place the stitches on the needle, ready to begin at row 111.

Then I looked at my pattern again.

Ahem. Those unattractive BOs? Yeah, those were my NECKLINE BOs. Last time I checked, necklines weren’t seamed shut.

I breathed deeply for a few moments, calmed myself, and re-did all the knitting I’d spent the afternoon doing.

On a postive note, this time I DID implement the short row thing on the 3 big 12-st BOs for the shoulders, (on the armhole side this time). I verified the pattern, and since there is a division for the back neck, and both shoulder sides have the same no of sts as the 2 front pieces, I’m golden.

Next time I’m reading the pattern FIRST, listening to my brain LATER.