Shooting Myself Would Be Easier

I’ve been knitting along and charting along and merrily alonging on Daedelus. Clearly, I’ve gotten overly confident, and the universe is letting me know.

Here is where I was this morning

Oh wait, no… that’s the isn’t my scenery to die for shot.
Here’s a better one of the shawl

Can you spot the error yet?

How about now?

Let’s peek at some details, shall we?

The top of those feathers should be the same.

Note how on the one on the left, there are four (okay it looks like three, but there really are four) sets of yo’s. Note how on the one on the right there are but two such sets? In both feathers? This is not the plan. Now… look back a moment at the full shawl view. See those 46 freaking rows since I finished the last of that set of feathers? Hmmmm??

Shooting myself would be ever so much easier.

I’d just blow this off and live with a stupid thing in the middle of my back — except that doing that means that my shawl is notably shorter than it should be (also, I think I want more space between the two sets of feathers .. more like the spacing from the top to the first set and the second set to where I am now.) Shorter means that I can’t confirm the number of yards the next knitter would really need. And since I’m releasing this baby for others (like say … you??) to knit… I have to do it right.

Sigh.

and yes, this is pretty much a cross post — the vacation bits are on my regular blog.