Sunday, March 16, 2008

Nearly there...or not

Hey there.

Remember Henry?

That scarf I’ve been working on with size 3 needles—that Henry?

I finally passed the half way point. The stitch pattern seems to be working out in my favor. It looked about right to my eyes anyway. Then something goes wrong.

Look at this picture:

Can you spot the problem? I’ll give you a hint: it has nothing to do with my stitch count and everything to do with my circular needle coming apart! See?!!


What makes this especially painful--these are new needles. I bought these just for this scarf. What can I say--I don't normally use 40" size 3 needles. I wonder is Skacel (Addi) needles have a warranty? I'll have to look it up.

Now I need to figure out how to salvage this. I don't have the right size needles to complete the project and I don't want to buy new needles to finish this. I wonder if I can use a little bit of gorilla glue (or as my brother calls it, "monkey glue') to fix them. But what am I going to do with all of those live stitches?