Important Things to Remember...

Mental note - watching movies that require a lot of paying attention is probably not a good co-activity for knitting something with complicated cabling in the pattern. Case in point: I just started the Kitt Shrug from the Mission Falls East + West book last night while watching (or trying to watch) Fight Club for the first time. This afternoon I picked it back up while watching another movie (The Whole Ten Yards) and just now I noticed not one tiny mistake that I saw earlier but decided to overlook - I knit some stitches I should have purled and ended up with a bit of garter stitch instead of reverse stockingette -- but two very huge glaring mistakes in the cabling patterns. The first was not starting a cable where it should have started - so that it looks like a cable starts in mid-air rather than at the edge of the piece with the rest of the cables. The second was much more grievous. I am supposed to have matching braided cables on both edges of the back. Instead I had a beautiful braided cable on one side, and a thinner cable with a column of knit next to it on the other. I checked and rechecked the pattern charts, and the only thing I can think of is that I somehow overlooked the cross where it should have been down a few rows.

Argh. Well, to the frog pond we go, and we're viewing it as a "learning opportunity".

In other news, and a bit more interesting at that: blog-world's own Dooce was interviewed by one of the local papers for a SXSW feature piece. Very cool! I started reading Heather's blog via one of the knitbloggers (yeah, we rule Bloglines, baybee) and I've enjoyed her living biography ever since. How often do you get that real a look into someone else's life? I admire her and her husband for doing what they want and being gutsy enough to tell the rest of us about it. For her detractors: you're just mad you didn't think of it first.