So Not Impressed

Finally decided I was brave enough to start knitting myself a jumper. Found a pattern I liked, purchased the wool and needles, now I  had everything I needed and was ready for the off.

As I was casting on I realised I had picked up the shorter needles not the long ones, me being me thought "ok not a problem, will finish casting on and get bigger ones tomorrow."
The next day I got my longer needles, plus a long round shaped flexible one, it probably has a proper name but I'm afraid I don't know it.

I'm gaily knitting away, following the easy to read pattern, I do have a bit of a problem reading knitting patterns. I'd been at it about three hours, when I suddenly noticed I had dropped a stitch about 5 rows down!

Now, I have learnt to pick up stitches, but not when they are several rows down. I had no idea what to do, and as I was religiously following this pattern I decided to embark on my worst nightmare, unpicking the rows until I got to offending row, then trying to get them all back on the needle!


It all went surprisingly well actually, I was feeling very pleased with myself. I got all the stitches back on and I was off again. This was great I was on a roll!


Then the pattern changed, but it wasn't working out. Oh no, what had I done wrong? So I counted my stitches five times and came up with a different answer each time.


So I asked the long suffering Himself to check how any stitches I had. He kindly obliged and said I had eighteen too many. "Are you sure" I screamed, and made him count them again, still had eighteen too many!


Thought about decreasing a couple of stitches each end, but then that would cause problems when sewing it up when finished. 


There was no other option, I had to unpick all my hard work and start again!


I think this jumper is going to take me a very long time to knit.


SO NOT IMPRESSED!