When last we left our heroine (yeah, delusions of grandeur, I know), she was angsting over her Vernal Equinox shawl. A mistake had necessitated frogging the shawl back to the most recent lifeline. Not SUCH an arduous task, perhaps, but...(dun dun DUNNNNN!) the lifeline had slipped out of the last twenty or so stitches on the needle! Noooooo! With this yarn and this pattern, fixing this would be iffy at best. Would our heroine have to unravel to the PREVIOUS lifeline? Would the entirety of Chart 5 be lost?
Well, that's what I was afraid of, anyway. I put aside my knitting for a while. Like, um, a month. OK, more than a month. Five or six weeks. Stupid, really. I finally got my act together this evening and took a stab at replacing the lifeline. I seem to have gotten it! My work is now back on the needles! I even switched to a longer cable, to make my life easier as the shawl gets bigger. Now, I can attack this thing again and hopefully be able to wear it during the summer, as planned! It'll be my first full-size lace shawl, and I think it'll be perfect as an "in the air conditioning" layer. I'm so relieved. Now, I'm anxious to get going again. :)
It's funny...when I put my knitting aside like this, I get to the point where I'm reluctant to look at Ravelry. It's like, I feel like since I'm not knitting, reading and talking about knitting makes me a poseur. Silly, I know. it's not like I'm no longer a knitter. It's not like I've considered giving up on knitting for good. Still, though. I occasionally looked at the Bust Line group (because that's about bras and shirts and stuff, not just knitting), but only once or twice did I even glance at anything else. Hey, now I have another time waster again. :)
