Valentine's Day massacre

First of all, happy Valentine's Day.

I'm nursing a broken heart over the frogged mess you see above. Work closed early yesterday due to the snow and ice and remained closed today. I've been using this extra time to knit another ribbed hat, mostly because I can't do much else while cooped up in my apartment. A day off for my student neighbors has meant lots of swearing and stomping accompanying the playing of a video game in the apartment below me and lots of smoking of something rank in the one beside me. So concentration isn't easy to come by.

I had about six inches finished when I noticed that I had an extra stitch. I thought that knitting two together would solve the problem easier than undoing countless stitches.

Wrong.

After a few rows I could see that the ribs were shifting. This was not good. The only thing to do was use caution in removing all the stitches from the needle and ripping out back to the trouble spot. I don't really have to tell you that it's been one failure after another, do I?

I've attempted putting some stitches back on the needle, but I have no idea if they're facing the right direction or if I have all of them. I'm deeply worried that there's no other choice but to frog it all. We're talking hours of work down the drain, and it makes me want to curl up and go back to bed. I'd been hoping to get the hat finished today. As it stands, I may have nothing done by the end of the day.

Plus, Jennifer's scarf with the two dropped stitches has been sitting there awaiting my attention. Since it only has 24 stitches, I thought I might as well see if I could fix it. Honestly, I expected I was going to rip it all out too.

I tried picking up the stitches, but that was a futile effort. It didn't look right at all. Off came the stitches, and the frogging began. I worked back to a good stopping point and tried a last ditch effort to save this project. I grabbed a US 7 and slid the stitches one at a time onto it and then transferred them to the 10s. It looked like it worked. I knitted a few rows, and yes, I believe I fixed it. I would have rather salvaged my work on the hat, which amounts to a lot more lost time, but at least one project survived.

This photo of campus yesterday morning should give you an idea of what it looks like here. I don't think we got that much snow, but the sleet and ice last night worsened the conditions. Assuming it's not too bad, I'm going to escape my apartment to see a screening of a Bollywood film written by a professor where I work. Then I'm going to pop over to the waiting line for the Blue Jackets cheap seats. I have a feeling it's going to be loud and rambunctious around home today, so I might as well be in a place where I don't mind the noise.

Again, have a great Valentine's Day.