Tour de France KAL - Lecon 4: Un Accident d'automobile
Sunday, 15 July 2007
Lesson 4: A Car Accident
In the illustration for this chapter there is a motorbike and a policeman: things you see quite often in the Tour de France. The Haute Tricot jumper has had 'un accident' itself. Just as I had finished all the knitting, I saw an errant purl stitch: sirens sounded, triple '0's were rung, mad excursions on motor bikes were thought about, and arms waved wildly about as if an officer of the law was directing ill-placed stitches. I marked the stitch, which is of course right in the front, with some 'Ming' coloured wool. I am going to unRavel the cast off, drop the stitch down, change the Purl to a Knit and then pick the stitch up again and cast off once more. Then, just the sleeves to be sewn up and the neckband to knit and the Jumper: She is finished!!! Lundi is the day then!!!
Hey Cindy,
Need some advice...I've been contacted by a shop in Launceston called Homebody about stocking my cushions. Any chance you know of the shop. I would love to hear what you think of it. Can you see my cushions there??
Cheers,
Belinda
Posted by: Belinda | Sunday, 15 July 2007 at 09:33 PM
click clack click clack (not Cleckheton) ..... you're so clever Cin!
Posted by: rosie-maree dean | Sunday, 15 July 2007 at 10:05 PM
Man you are a speedy knitter - I am not worthy.
At this stage a successful finish for me is NOT guaranteed....only a 1/4 of the way through...with the big mountains ahead...
Posted by: Donyale | Sunday, 15 July 2007 at 10:25 PM
Are your needles hot from all that speed-knitting? Good catch on the errant stitch, too. That would have really bugged me if I'd found it two months down the line!
Posted by: AmyP | Monday, 16 July 2007 at 05:47 AM
*faint* you're super duper fast. you knit as fast as the speed of light!!! you're my idol now!!! ^_^
Posted by: Michelle | Monday, 16 July 2007 at 09:59 AM
I knew you will finish the race & ahead of time - the jumper looks great!
Posted by: Ann | Monday, 16 July 2007 at 12:14 PM
oooohhhhhh it's lovely! Hope the emergency surgery to repair the broekn rib went well!
Have just noticed I'm not on your 'Apples of mt Isle' list - sob sob
Posted by: Penni | Monday, 16 July 2007 at 01:40 PM
Oh Cindy, you should embrace the Japanese notion of wabi sabi whereby they DELIBERATELY make a mistake, because nothing should be perfect.
Posted by: amanda j | Monday, 16 July 2007 at 09:32 PM
I'm catching up on my bloglines and I am in suspense of the mistakenly purled knit stitch. Does it all work out? I'll keep reading to find out. ;)
Posted by: jae | Sunday, 22 July 2007 at 02:32 AM