成人快手

My friend Wendy is expecting her first child, and with her being a good friend I thought I'd do something a bit special and knit a shawl for the wee one myself.

So up to Granny Wood to ask her if she could give me a pattern, and dipping her hand into her magic shopping bag - out came a pattern.

Now I've been knitting this shawl for a fortnight. Most of the time I've been ripping back the knitting as every time I got past the "make one, knit 15" row, I found that I'd lost stitches somewhere.

According to Gran I'm like her sister Margaret, who could never just go back and correct the mistake, I've got to go back to the very beginning.

So there I was on Sunday, watching the rain pelting down on the Lynn of Lorne and knitting away quite merrily. Up I went past row "make one knit 15", up past row "make one knit 20" and at row "make one knit 30" it happened. I've lost one stitch.

Have I ripped it back - have I heck as like. I'm in Stirling on Saturday to have lunch with Gran and my Aunts and Gran's getting the knitting to fix it.

After then, I've only got to get up to row "make one knit 35" before I visit her again to talk me through the next part of the pattern.

I realise it's probably quite simple, but reading the pattern just doesn't make any kind of sense at all to me just now, and its a lot more technical than make a stitch and then knit.

Don't worry - I'll let you know how it goes....