Oh fudge!
This is one of those am-I-normal questions: Do any of you, uh, fudge your knitting?
By fudge I mean devising creative work-arounds for those unfortunate, but minor mistakes one makes while knitting. Case in point: While we were driving the long stretch between Las Vegas and Raton, N.M., I knitted in the hem of the front of the Audrey Shell. The technique for knitting-in a hem is similar to a three-needle bind off; the provisional cast-on stitches are picked up on a third needle then knit together with the live stitches. Simple enough, except that I had three fewer provisional stitches than live stitches.
What do you do? Do you:
A: Throw your knitting onto I-25, hoping it will be mistaken for road kill?
B: Frog it and do it correctly?
C: Take it out on your husband by starting a fight?
D: Fudge a little by knitting one live stitch then knitting two two together from the live and provisional needles, continuing in that vein until the row is complete?
E: Other?
We all know what I did. What would you do?
Daily war rant: We have a saying out 'chere in the West--don't change horses in mid-stream. What's with the complete reorg of the American reconstruction team in Iraq?
7:50:28 AM 
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