I wasted a whole load of time today because I did some of my stitch number calculations when my brain was switched off. This meant the welt on my new jumper would have been lopsided and probably a bit twisted, because I had done too many increases in the first half. To Mr F's horror, I unknitted
as much of the row as I had done, about 100 or so stitches. I couldn't bear to carry on knowing the finished article would look a mess.
Would you have unknitted or botched?
So, having sorted out my maths and realised what a prat I am, I sat outside in the sun to get a few rows in
After a while I smelt burning. Oh, I thought, Rob next door has burned a saucepan dry. I went into the house just to check it wasn't me.....all sweet smelling and burn free.
So I carried on knitting
only to find after a while that my yarn had a break in it
When I looked, the two ends had been burned through.
- the yarn was sitting in a stainless steel bowl, in the sunshine. Whilst the bowl was totally cool, it must have concentrated the rays back onto the yarn where it left the ball and burned it through, like when you set fire to something with a magnifying glass in the sun. Well, that's never happened to me before
. It was only laziness too, as I couldn't be bothered to empty out my yarn bowl, which is pottery and would have been fine
but then I would have missed the magic