Safety Net

I, quite literally, ripped this lace pattern out 30 times. I was swearing at it. It got ugly. I put it aside and then went back to it and started using the knitting equivalent of a safety net.



On a plain row (many wrong side rows are all purl stitches) you weave a piece of scrap yarn through your knitting to mark a place where you know you were right. Then, when you screw up you only have to rip out 10 rows instead of a heart-wrenching 30 or 40 rows.

Since then I haven't made a single mistake, of course! We'll see how this goes. Only 25 or so pattern repeats (250 rows) to go!