Small change deary I just ripped out 266 stitches TWICE!

So I'll moan with you :)

I agree with Shannon. Just stick the first row on at the end. Of course I haven't seen the actual pattern so there is a very good chance I have no idea what I am talking about. :) I am stalled on my Black Water Abbey project too so you're no alone!

When you say 'backwards', do you mean that the right-side rows are charted left to right?... I'd have to agree with you--that's a sin against nature. ;-)

If it makes you feel better, I'm restarting mine too. I decided to do a different size and I messed up the first buttonhole (same problem, it was done on a side I wasn't expecting, so I was off a row). So you are not alone :) (just want to get all those set up row cables done: yikes!!!)

rip it, rip it good (i'm having a punk kinda night). i'd grit my teeth, pull out the needle, and rip it. although, if it were me, i'd rip it all the way back, i hate trying to pick up stitches like that. have fun, girl.

Sandy, why not re-write the chart and put the first row at the end? You'd have to start the first pattern repeat on the LAST (previously FIRST) row of the chart before starting with the NEW FIRST (previously SECOND) row, and end on the SECOND TO LAST (previously LAST) row, but it should still work so long as you do that. Imagine that the the pattern repeat is a circle, and that you can "break" it wherever you want. Good luck!

Oh crap! What would I do? I'd rip it back all the while repeating "it's the process, not the product," trying to convince myself that it is indeed the process.
Li

Dearest Sandy,

You must learn to read a chart backwards. Now is as good a time as any.

You can do it!

Love,

Claudia

P.S. This is all just a polite way of saying "suck it up, girlfriend".

Even meager beginnings are a noble start :-).

Colleen (Meagher)

Never having worked a chart, I vote for transposing the chart. If you can't get used to it, you can't. Good luck!

Oh dear. I am working on another BBR pattern - Celtic Dreams. It is kind of cool, actually, to see her style repeat itself in her other patterns. I am guessing she does the WS thing, because she has you do increasing/decreasing to address cable splay (she describes it last page of your pattern) - it must be that the inc./dec. is done on certain rows (for best appearance), which effects what row you start on?

Whatever the reason, and I'm sure there is one, I think you gotta rip because it will just cause you more pain later!

I have found that if you follow her patterns, word by word, you will be fine. These are not beginner patterns, I would say. You will challenge your knitting skills, but you will end up feeling pretty darn good about what you did in the end.

And that's the truthththth! (ala EdithAnn)

I'm itching to start Marilyn....

Yikes.... I wonder why they would start with the wrong side for the first row? I have no doubt you will figure it out.

Ah, Sandy, that's why I started with the sleeves so I could get used to the idiosyncricies of the pattern. Mine too starts with 1 as a WS row. I ripped out 2 inches of sleeve and restarted before I figured ut how it works. I've had to resort to notes on my row ticking sheet though to keep track. :) You might want to rip out and start a sleeve. less stress and more time to get familiar before you have to REALLY commit! :)