What we have here are two sleeves and half a back that will need to be ripped out due to an obvious and very disfiguring mistake on my part. Ugh. Sorry for the crappy picture quality, it is very overcast in Virginia today. Also overcast? MY SOUL.

I am making the Ribbed Turtleneck from Hollywood Knits by Suss Cousins (it's the cover design). The entire sweater is done in K1 P1 rib in even numbers. This means you start with a knit stitch and end in a purl (relevant later).

Now, clever me, I thought, "I will do my increases and decreases 1-2 stitches away from the edge stitch, to allow myself a selvedge for seaming." Yes, I am so smart NOT. What I didn't think of was the fact that when you do seam, you eat up 1/2 of a stitch. Seaming a K stitch to a K stitch looks pretty. Seaming a K stitch to a P stitch? Nooooooot so much. And I got this far before "that feeling" (you know the one) prompted me to reach for "Sweater Design in Plain English" and open up to the ribbing section where my worst fears were confirmed..

OMG, DUH. On the bright side, I've been knitting on size 11 needles with chunky yarn, so it shouldn't take too long to get back on track.

And now for my mini-rant about the written directions for this pattern. They suck. The schematic is horrible too. A lot of looking at the pictures and guesswork are needed to figure out how to carry on. The best I can say is that I feel like I'm all smart now because I could look at the pattern and go, "WTF. Okaaaaaaay, I guess I'll do a tubular cast on so it'll look like the picture and *peers at directions some more* ktog and ssk for the decreases that I am apparently supposed to do on the first and last stitches but will not. Thanks for nothing, SUSS." And now the more experienced knitters are laughing at me, but hey. This is progress for the Yarn Abuser.

Bleh.