Dear Designer,
Did you happen to have some kind of trouble when you were working out row 12 of this pattern? Come on. Fess up. While you were working on it it gave you trouble didn’ t it? Or you and your hubby had a tiff so while you were working on that row several silent bad wishes were worked into it.
That must be it. Becuase every single time I work on this row something goes wrong.
Every time.
It’s not that it’s complicated. Really it’s not. It’s actually quite easy! But no matter what. No matter how careful I think I am being. Something goes wrong and I have to pull it out and start that row again!
I have employed many useful tricks to try to avoid this. I have stitch markers on the needles where I need to make the little eyelets. They are even pink so I only do the pink ones on the purl row (which is always row 12). How clever of me don’t you think?
I have put a star next to row 12 on my little extra chart I made up to mark the rows I need to decrease for the arm holes. Now that, that was the tricky part! This row 12 is nothing compared to figuring out how to decrease 11 times evenly over 32 rows.
All to no avail! I still mess it up!
Come on, it’s not like it’s row 13. Then I could start getting supersticious.
So tell me what is it you have against the number 12? Have you listened too many times to the song the 12 Days of Christmas? Hate the movie Cheaper by the Dozen? Had 12 siblings and hate being part of a big family?
Well I will press on. My notes for today start with.. rip out row 12 and redo.
And I will do that. And hope for the best.
Please dear designer. Could you just throw some good thoughts my way? Mabye 12 of them?
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