Don't be fooled by my confident attitude and my calm demeanor. I haven't reached this point without some sweating, some heart-pounding, and lots and lots of ripping. Yesterday, I was knitting happily along, thinking I was following the instructions to the letter. To me, M1 = Make One = lift the yarn between the stitch on the left needle and the stitch on the right needle, place it onto the left needle and knit into it. Simple. I did this whenever I was told to M1.
Boy, did I have some big holes. Big ones. My big holes didn't look very nice. I did a search through many, many pics of finished BSJs and not one seemed to have big holes like mine. Rats.
Then I noticed a little drawing in the bottom right corner of the BSJ pattern. It showed "M1, K1, M1" below the drawing and the M1 was made with a backward loop cast-on stitch. Rats again.
On the next row, I tried this version of the M1 and it didn't make such a big hole. It made a cute, little, reasonable hole. Rats, rats.
I carefully inserted a smaller circular needle way back into row 45, well before I started increasing and into one of the only rows where I knew I'd done straight knitting without any wacky business. Then, I ripped and ripped and ripped some more.
You know I was successful, because you didn't see a story about a crazed, vengeful Connecticut knitter on the evening news. What I would have done with those circulars!
Now I'm knitting along happily and things are going my way . . . for now.
But don't watch the news for the next few days. Just in case.
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