I started Nightsongs a few nights ago…
but I think in retrospect it would have been smarter to wait until an evening when I was feeling a little less tired out. Work these days is pretty exhausting. Even though the hours are more manageable than the 14 hour marathons I was working at the hospital, I am still quite worn out mentally at the end of the day. The learning curve is steep, and I am chugging up those hills, but not at as fast a pace as I had hoped.
I worked the first 10 rows or so before I realized that you have to work BOTH the left and right charts… not just 1 or the other. Duh. Frogged.
Then I tried again, sneezed at around row 6, knocked my stitches off the needles… instead of trying to feed them back on in the twisty unruly circular needles. I remembered why I like to start these things on straights or DPN’s for the first few rows. Frogged again.
After casting on the third time (that’s always the charm right?) I worked about 15 more rows and then went to bed. When I woke up in the morning I realized that perhaps I was doing something incorrect with the base of the leaves in the area of the double YO. When I went downstairs to look… sure enough… There will be more Frogging again...
4th time is a charm… or is that 50th?
On the Plus Side... It looks really pretty See? Once I finally got the hang of it the whole thing wasn't so bad. I guess getting started is the hardest part sometimes?