epiphany

many thanks to the wonderful stephanie and karyn at unwind for helping me out last night. i had the yarnover all wrong. i always thought that the yarnover was: pulling yarn to front and knitting next stitch to create an extra stitch. that's what they show you in books, but they lie! yarnover only means to bring the yarn to the front. if you knit the stitch after it, the pattern will say to k1. and that's why all of my counts were off when i did anything with yarnovers. i would automatically knit the stitch and then read the pattern and knit another stitch or whatever. now it all makes sense. but why don't they tell you that in the books? it always says to bring yarn forward and knit next stitch. damn them. but look at what i was able to do:



that's the lacy bonnet from erika knight's knitting for two. i hope to finish by tonight. and of course i couldn't leave the store empty handed. this is what i got (thanks for the giftcard, vanessa!).



yes, vintage knits and the baby bobbi bear pattern. i gotta make mini bobbi bear! he's too adorable. and progress on cyd:



i am actually finished with the back at this point. the directions for the shoulders seemed a bit off to me, but i have never really done any shoulders before, so who knows. will hopefully go to the fabric store this weekend to check out some ribbon. michael's and joann's just ain't cutting it.

oh and i got the job. more on that later.