Sometimes this afghan feels more like a tale of tragedy than a large fun project. The Barbara McIntire Block is like a knitted monument to my puny little brain.

I knitted this block cheerfully and quickly. It consists of four charts which all have row counts that are multiples of 4. I copied and taped together a large graph from the small ones, just like I did in the Meridith K. Morioka Block. This time I taped it together correctly, so theoretically, this block should have been knitted accurately.

In practice, I made several errors Three to be exact. All of them were cable mis-crosses. I crossed the cables in the right place, but crossed them the wrong way. If it was supposed to be right on top of left, I crossed them the opposite way.

Now, this time I really did look down at my work every once in a while to check and make sure I was on the right track. I didn't see anything wrong. It was when I was blocking the square that I began to suspect there was something wrong. It probably took me an hour of hunching over block, holding the picture next my version to figure out exactly which cables were mis-crossed. Now, I know it should make me feel a little better that it was so difficult to figure out where the mistakes were, but it doesn't. It just annoys me.

Instead of ripping out pretty much the entire block, I used a duplicate stitch, like Yarn Harlot shows here to cover up my mistake. I think unless you really inspect closely you'd never notice this mistakes, which almost negates the fact that I made them. ...Almost.

Watch out on those cable crosses when your knitting the Barbara McIntire square!

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