Urgh....

.... after showing you all that beautiful shawl progress, the shawl now looks like this:

After posting last night, I sat down to do a few more rows before bed. I realized I had made a glaring mistake a few rows back. I can't rip back lace - I won't even try. But, I was planning to go up to mom's for a cat food exchange (don't ask - suffice it to say between us we have six very finicky cats) so I put it away so she could fix it.

I took it to her today... now, I knew there were a few other "flubs" but they were ones I was pretty sure weren't that noticeable in the grand scheme of things... blocking solves all right? Well it does until your mother start pointing them out - "Well what about that one?" "And look there, your stitches are all wonky"

She would have had to rip back so far, I would have been left with just a few rows on the needles so I said screw it and frogged it - I guess it's not a good at work project because obviously I wasn't paying enough attention - I'll stick to socks at work.

Anyway, I'll cast on again this weekend. I have Friday off, so once I get my housework done, I should be able to get back to where I was pretty quickly.

So depressing... thanks mom.....

But I did get cheered up a little bit - mom did make me whipped potatoes for dinner, and when I got home this was in my mailbox:Ten scrumdiddlyumptuous balls of Stella (60 per cent silk, 20 per cent rayon, 30 per cent cotton) in Scarlet Red. This is for my Wool Peddlers shawl. Yum!