First of all, when novelty yarn gets tangled . . .Oye! This was doubled by the fact that my yarn was actually two strands - a fuzzy strand and a strand with little blocks on it.
The plus side, which I will sandwich between my negatives, is that knitting a scarf out of one skein of yarn is a quick project. I started this on Sunday, and should have been done with it last night. That brings me to my second negative point, which technically could happen with any project.
This is actually the first knitting project I have almost finished, so as I came to the end of my yarn I began looking for instructions on casting off. I found a video on ehow.com and then printed instructions in a prayer shawl book. It looked easy enough, so I decided to go for it on my own. Things were going beautifully and my excitement was building with every stitch that was finished. But, I evidently got overconfident on my next to last stitch and as I was pulling it over, both feel off my needle. In my desperation to hold on to that last string, the nice lacy scarf began to unravel. My cry of despair was so loud that my husband thought I had hurt myself with those size 15 needles, which he calls ninja needles.
My only hope is that one of the master knitters at church will be able to help me salvage this project and fix my casting off slip up. Otherwise, all I know to do is unravel and start over. Any other suggestions are most welcome.
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