I often work on this project after minyan as I drink my first cup of coffee. When I took it out to work on Thursday morning, I discovered that all my stitch markers were on the opposite side I was working and that didn’t make any sense.
When I couldn’t quickly find the issue, I continued. And I carried on during the weekly sisterhood session1 when we sit and work on our blankets together.
The blanket now measures approximately 17 inches or 43 cm. As I laid it out for this progress photo, I discovered it’s not laying right. If you look along the edge with my tape measure you can see that the lower edge and specifically that corner on the right is very off.
It will go into time out, but something tells me I will pull back about 3 inches to my last known good point and rework it.
Is this perfectionism?
No… this is the sort of mistake that will niggle at me. In the back of my head I will hear a voice that says I should’ve fixed it when it was only a few rows off kilter.
I don’t want the entire blanket to develop a new shape.
With that in mind, I’m constantly telling students2:
- humans aren’t flat
- humans aren’t made of right angles
- humans aren’t circular
However,
- humans are lumpy in odd places
- humans are often cold, especially in hospital settings
- humans need to feel loved and cared for
At this point it’s only about a week of work that I need to rip out and I do want to find where I turned the work around. My guess is that at some point I put the piece away when I was at a corner and turned back without realizing it. However, I’ve been unable to spot it so far!