Monday, October 19, 2015

The match ended sadly. You can find the details easily: I will not rehearse them. For some of the time, I was able to knit the ribbing of the Leapman hat. It's a slightly fancy ribbing, but only slightly – do-able, even in stressful circumstances.

Now I've got to press on with the hat so that I don't find the sad afternoon forever tangled up in it. This was what I was knitting when.... As sometimes happens.

I got a bit more of the Dunfallandy triangle done before the match started, but it's not finished. (Thomas and Lucy and the unborn great-grandchild were there at Twickenham, Thomas wearing his kilt.)

Skeindalous, I think you can safely pencil in “?p6” in the middle of that final triangle row in your Dunfallandy pattern, where it says “p4”. That's the point in both the first and the second triangles where I realised that something was wrong – the instructions may not say “sm”, but my centre marker was still in place and “purl 4” means that the triple decreases, one on either side, are not balanced.

Also, it occurred to me as I was driving along to the hospital yesterday, if adding two stitches to that row makes it come out right, stitch-wise, that means that two stitches are missing somewhere.


Now I must get cracking on this and that, because, needless to say, I didn't get as much done yesterday as I should have. I don't know when the ambulance will appear with my husband, but I must try to be ready. I will also try to be here tomorrow morning, and henceforth, but it may not be possible. You mustn't worry.

8 comments:

  1. Oh, too bad, Jean. Wishing you a smooth transition day.

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  2. I'm curious--searching Ravelry for the Greystone hat pattern I find one by Melissa Thomson but nothing under Leapman. Different hat? Maiden name?

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    1. Anonymous8:41 PM

      You are correct - it is Thomson not Leapman. I own her 2013 collection - all terrific hats.
      Carol in San Diego CA

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  3. Don't dare to tell us not to worry - some of us are Mums and it is what we do best! Just hoping that it helps you to know that you are not alone in the struggle - there are people who wish they could help as much as the ones right there with you,
    All the bes to you.

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  4. Considering last week was a sort of practice run, I have every confidence that today will go smoothly. (I do not say "ought" or "should" because we all know there's no such thing.) Here's hoping for a comfortable evening watching a Man and his Cat get to know one another.

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  5. Syd T.6:30 PM

    Thanks for the warning, we worry because we care so much. Prayers going out that everything goes extremely well.

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  6. Pleased to see that it is now admitted that the match should not have ended like it did. Unfortunately the referee's decision is still final . . . . .

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    1. That's fairly extraordinary, the rebuke to the referee from on high. I switched off at the final whistle, unable to bear more. Did we actually see the wretched man running off the field and down the tunnel? That was very extraordinary. Maybe he needed a pee.

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