Knitting Frustrations

Well I finished clue 2 for the MS3 this past weekend. It went pretty quickly, and turned out great. Thankfully this project is going smoothly so far.

Speaking of projects going smoothly... my Print O' the Wave Stole was not going smoothly last night. I finished the 2 middle sections and grafted them together. Instead of using a tapestry needle I tried knitting them together as taught in the Tech Knitting blog. This is so much easier, plus I don't have to dig out my needle. So the pieces are grafted together, then I start the much hated chore of picking up 640 stitches from around the four corners. Ugh! The inner border went smoothly enough only took me a couple of hours. Now comes the not so smooth part. The edging border. I thought I was going crazy, because no matter how many times I frogged and recounted I was always one stitch too many when I started the decreases. So I went to bed, had horrible dreams about the freaking border, then woke up and decided to check to see if anyone else had the same problem. Low and behold, there is a mistake in the pattern. I was so relieved to hear this. So I followed with what others had done, and added a decrease to the outer edge. Problem solved. Now, after all this I have 4 repeats done and 76 more to go, then I will have my first Christmas KAL project done. I am almost done!