This week my Dublin Bay socks were my take to work knitting. I had stalled with about 2.5 inches done and decided they needed some attention. You know your knitting’s been sitting a tad long when you can easily pick out the row that held the needles.

So, I slowly worked on my Dublin Bay socks during breaks or if my brain was feeling a bit too mushy. I even took it with me to the all hands meeting that was held at noon today cause they tend to run about an hour and a half. Halfway through the meeting I realize there is something wrong with my lace pattern… it’s off by about one stitch. I count… stitch count is all hunky-dory… wait… why are there 23 stitches on needle 3 and 25 stitches on needle 1?

This is when I remember that when the sock went to Monterey for Christmas some of the stitches came off the needles. I popped them back on without another thought. So, I ripped back to the last row I know is good (this would be when it’s good you can see the row that held the needles for weeks on end). I find what I belive to be the center stitch and put everything back on the needles, 24 stitches/needle. Start knitting again.

Okay, the lace pattern still looks odd. Crap, must have put the stitches on the needles wrong. So, I recheck the center stitch… yup, it’s on the wrong needle. Tink back the 5 rounds I have knitted. Rotate the stitches by one stitch. Start knitting again.

Okay, now it’s off by 2 stitches. WTF? I must have moved the stitches in the wrong direction. This would be my inability to vizualize 3D objects correctly coming to the suface (this is a bad trait for a knitter by the way *sigh*).

At least this time I had only gotten 2 rounds down when I found the problem. Now I just have to remember that after I get back to the starting point that I have to move 2 stitches in the opposite direction.