When, while enjoying a lively knitting group, you become distracted and get off of your thrumming pattern, it is very worth it to take the 5 or so minutes to frog a few rows, rather than spend 45!!! trying to perform stitch surgery on a thrum. Just don’t do it. The only reason I did it is because the conversation that distracted me in the first place continued to command my attention. After literally FELTING the wretched thrum by all my attempts, I finally came to my senses and realized that I had wasted what seemed like close to an hour of good knitting time because I refused to pay enough attention. Frogging a couple rows on a 45 stitch mitten is no big deal! Aaaggh! By the time I realized this, and got back to knitting within a few minutes, I was very disgusted with myself.

I did have a wonderful time last night. Loads of fun. I am discovering that I am not the only one that had no freaking idea what thrumming was. Most people look at my mitten in progress like they are seeing a space alien. Just like I did when I saw Steph’s post last week. Next, what they are actually seeing begins to sink in and their eyes widen a bit at the incredible coolness and they ask to stick thier hand in. At that point, it becomes a respected and admired endeavor. It’s nice knowing that it wasn’t just me.

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