After struggling endlessly with the intarsia chart for the back of the Web Slinger cardigan I finally gave up and decided it was time for drastic measures. I printed knitters graph paper from my computer and I am creating a new chart to work from.
The old chart was wobbly, faint, tiny and impossible to count or track against. I'm sure the new chart will be perfect for getting this intarsia section under control and behind me. I will be able to do my trick if paperclipping a card on top of the chart and then slowly slide it row by row until I'm done -- this really does help so much.
In the meantime I brought out the Basketweave cardigan and was working on that the other night as the baby had a fitful night with a stomach bug and I just had to ride out the worst of it until he was able to rest for a decent stretch. Poor little guy has now had RSV (and was hospitalized), a flu-like illness and a stomach bug all since mid-January. The luck of being the second child? Heck if I know but I swear I try to get my older son to wash his hands and not touch his face.
Enough with the illnesses!
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