
I brought three projects with me. That may seem like a lot to you. I had two that were good for mindless knitting where I could carry on a conversation. The third project was the Wendy Knits Mystery Shawl KAL (knit-a-long).

Did you feel the "but" in there? The initial cast on is 648 sts using the cabled cast on. Oy! It took me the better part of the day to complete it. I worked on the cast on everywhere I went, the hair dresser, the nail salon, and the car.

I'm knitting these with Great Adirondack Smoochie sock yarn and I'm on a #00 circular needle. That's one of the reasons why I had an alternate project. You get pretty tired of #00's. She got to try them on after the toe increases, one of the many things I like about toe up socks.
Merrily I knit along until I went to knit the first row of the ruffle sock. Ah yes, those 648 sts. It was night time, driving in the car. No big deal I thought, it's stockinette. Well, you know how cast on rows can be twisty initially? Picture this, it's dark, the cast on is twisting as I'm knitting and I'm trying to untwist it, and I'm using Addi Clicks.
Right about now you could queue suspenseful music. The unsuspecting knitter goes confidently along her seemingly easy knit row when the clicks un-clicked! A hush fell over the car. I was staring at about 5" of unraveled cabled cast on with a ginormous amount of sts on either needle. I didn't know what to say or do. I sat there frozen. I could've cried. I think I held my breath. I tried to remain calm and consider my options.
1. take out the row and cast on and begin again. - not happening.
2. smoosh the remaining cast on sts together, continue knitting and fudge it later. - meh
3. attempt a mid air repair cabled cast on with the unraveled strand.
I chose option number 3. I had nothing to lose. There was no way I was going to cast on again and I wasn't giving up. It was like walking a tight rope. Would you believe I was able to put the sts back on? I never recounted. Who would ever know or notice if my stitch count was off. The good news is that by the time I reached the mid point where the sts were decreased to a manageable number of sts to count, I was only off 3 sts. That's a success in my book.
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