I’m not laughing, I’m feeling stupid. Nate threw his head back in laughter though, so you might get some amusement out of the situation.

I’m cruising along on the front of Abby’s Harry Potter sweater.

This is my view, from in bed, where I’ve been for most of the past two days. The sweater looks good, no? This is my first attempt at intarsia, and I have to say, intarsia’s a kick! I love it! Unfortunately, per the pattern, I’m not doing strictly intarsia, it’s more of a blend of intarsia and fair isle. See?

(Ah, the joys of color work). The stranded bits of yellow in the middle of the “H” are where I’m supposed to be doing fair isle, which means carrying the yarn not in use behind the color being knit. I was skeptical before starting it, and wanted to do the whole thing in intarsia because I always feel like a clumsy oaf when doing fair isle. Do you want to know why I didn’t? I’ll quote the pattern…

“Please take the contrast wool right across the initial rather than using separate balls….”

Now, I have no problem saying, “Pft!” to a pattern and doing whatever the heck I want anyway. None whatsoever. But the stupid pattern said PLEASE. PLEASE?!!! I tell you, I couldn’t do it! I couldn’t not follow the instructions, simply because they asked nice. And I’m not making this up. I literally can’t not do it. I feel dumb and am annoyed with myself. Nate thinks it’s hysterical.

On the plus side, it looks totally fabulous. Hayden can be jealous now. And I’m enjoying it so much, I’m actually contemplating starting Olivia’s Ron sweater as soon as I’m done! And since I don’t have a pattern for a Ron sweater to guilt me into submission, I’M DOING THE WHOLE STINKING THING INTARSIA!!!

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