The first thing that happened was that I messed up. This isn't a big deal, really. I just needed to fix the mistake and all would be well again. I could see that the lace wasn't aligning properly because I'd flubbed something two rows earlier, so I dropped the offending stitches down to before the mistake and promptly made more mistakes. I have a rule that says that if I start to compound mistakes with more mistakes, it's time to set whatever it was aside and leave it to rest for a while. That rule applies even if it's a sweater I'm trying to finish on a hard deadline. So, I set it aside and went to cook dinner.
That's when the second thing happened. There's a slicing device called a mandoline and I have one without a holding thingy so one must always be wary of getting ones fingers too close. But unfortunately that same thing that made me so out-of-it that I mucked up the knitting made me so out-of-it that I ... well, let's just say I made a generous donation from both my right thumb and my right baby finger to our scalloped potatoes and I haven't knit a stitch since.
I think I probably will try later this evening. Maybe I'll finally post some pictures of the work in progress before I do try.
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