Dirty Little Secret

The day before a new year, I casted on a project in addition to the lated mindless knitting project that I had already started. The yarn that I'm using is so terrible that frankly, I'm ashamed of it. My friend tells me that I need to wrap it up, set it on fire, and bury it in my backyard. That's how bad it is.

It's the mindless scarf done in Red Heart Supersaver. I'm kind of ashamed that I'm knitting with it. But both balls of yarn were given to me by a church friend and my sorority sister/fencing partner KJ. I really like the colors, just the yarn is terrible. It's honestly terrible. There's not much to say about it, other than it's done on US 8 needles with two balls of terrible yarn. There will be pictures on Ravelry when it's done, but I'm definitely giving this away to KJ. I sure as hell can't give it to the planktonic love of my life, and I sure as hell refuse to keep and wear it. Seriously.

Desperation

It's been raining hard here in Davis, and it's getting a mite nippy for my tastes. So I've started a scarf in the round for myself. It's in a dark, peacock color and a light, sky/winter blue color. I planned to do them in equal sized blocks. Then I realized that it would be harder than it looked. I knew that the stitch gauge was just about the same for both yarns, but I didn't check row gauge.

Then I started having gauge problems. I did the math for both sections after I noticed that the two blocks were of different sizes. Both were 6 roundss to an inch, so 26 roundss in one would equal 26 rounds in the other, right? Apparently not. Clearly, I was mistaken somehow, perhaps I was a quarter of a stitch off or something, but the sizes were still clearly different. So I measured again, the length of the peacock colored block was about 4.5 inches instead of 4.73 inches as calculated. But, I rolled with the punches, and measured the winter blue block. 5 inches. So I frogged back about 4 rows so that I would be somewhere in the ballpart of 4.5 inches. I was at 4 inches. So I just shrugged then knit the rounds back. Then it was back to 5 inches. I swear on my yarn that I had a very interesting "skip" in my knitting, just like there are in scratched CDs. A break in the time-space continuum. Something... But it has finally worked itself out with much flinging of tape measures and pillows.

I'm worried about this project and what it will do for my sanity.

Pattern:
In A, CO 42 sts, pm, join
Knit 26 rounds
Break A, switch to B
Knit 24-ish rounds
Repeat until length desired.

I love these plain, vanilla, stockinette scarves. Love them.