Progress on My Shawl

I'm still so pleased with how my shawl is turning out. It's almost two feet long now, but that means that what I've been afraid of is going to be true: I'm going to need at least two more skeins of yarn to finish it. That's alright, I guess, but I don't have a lot of fun money to spend on yarn right now.

The inevitable has finally happened as well: I messed up a row somehow, though I'm not sure what I did exactly, so in the next row, I was one stitch short. Luckily, I noticed the stitch was missing in the repetition it was missing in, so the pattern across the rest of the row wasn't off. I looked down at the row below to see if I could find the stitch that I dropped because then I could just pull it back up and be on my way, but I didn't see anything out of the ordinary. So rather than rip back to where I dropped the stitch and probably mess my shawl up more, I just left out the knit 2 together (k2tog) in that row and carried on. For as far as I am in this shawl, I'm surprised that's the only real mistake I've made. Well, once I think I kept using slip slip knit (ssk) after I was supposed to have switched back to k2tog, but when I looked back I couldn't tell, and I couldn't remember, so I just let it be.

I'm so excited about this shawl, and I'm definitely getting faster at the pattern which is nice. I am honestly a pretty slow knitter. Not because I can't go faster, but because I'm not trying to. However, all of this knitting I've been doing as of late has really been helping me to knit faster without really trying.

Happy knitting!