This morning I turned the air blue with the F word, the S word and the D word several times. It all started yesterday when Mom and Kim tired me out by dragging me all over Nanaimo. OK, so it just Bowen Park and the walk was my idea and it certainly didn't seem like we were walking for very long but last night I was utterly exhausted and nodded off three times while working on my shawl. I eventually gave up trying to knit and went to bed not realizing the damage I had done. I undoubtedly exacerbated the problem this morning when I picked up the shawl by the needles. Apparently, last night while I was dozing I dropped TWO stitches. Not side by side but about 24 stitches apart. I was able to catch them before they ran any further down the shawl but I need to tink (knit in reverse) back about four rounds (704 lace stitches per round) to fix it. This is going to take a while. I would like to say I have learned my lesson from this and will no longer be knitting when tired but it's happened before and I'm sure it will happen again.


This isn't my shawl but you can see what a mess a couple of dropped stitches can turn into if not caught in time.