Wash's Sweater

One of the groups I belong to at http://www.ravelry.com/ is the Over 40 group. They are a GREAT bunch of people. As I stated in yesterday's blog they have convinced me to give up my beloved crochet (for a time being) and try knitting. Not just any knitting mind you but Aran knitting. That's the stuff with cables all over it. The pattern I have decided on is Wash's Sweater by Don Yarnman. (The pattern can be found here: http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/washs-sweater) Not only did they have me trade in my small hook for two long sticks but also a thing called a cable holder that looks suspiciously like something I saw once in a lock picking course I had in the army. Here I am trying to juggle all three of the #$% things and trying to remember which piece of yarn goes where. That is when I learned something and decided to keep a chronicle of things learned here.

• I just learned my first "Life Lesson Learned" from knitting. Count your cast on stitches twice, because the first time you count them you could be wrong and not realize it until four PAINFUL rows later, then your dog laughs at you as you cry.