Off to a Bad Start

So, have you ever had one of THOSE projects? You know, where things constantly go wrong. Added stitch here, extra row there and you don't realize it until you're past a complicated section of repeats?

Well, this isn't like that, but it COULD be.....

I saw that the Central Maryland Knitting Guild was doing a KAL of the Central Park Hoodie. Not sure what flipped, but I have to make it. I have some Lion Brand Wool-Ease in my stash and I had all intentions of going to the meeting, but totally chickened out. Yes, I'm weird, I get funny about social events sometimes.

So, I cast-on and began the ribbing. Problem 1, I pulled a little too hard and ripped the plastic wire out of my circular needles. Wow, that was a new one. So I shoved it back in and it's been holding ok. Need to get some glue. I haven't gotten terribly far, but today I noticed something...














Maybe not so noticeable....but if you look close, the left side is smaller than the right. Yup, that's right, somehow I ended up with more rows on the right than the left. Definitely an interesting problem.

I have decided to rip it back and restart the whole thing. I also decided to go down a size. I was debating. Since it seems a lot was going wrong with the large size, I'll try the smaller and see how it goes.

On a different note...
The hubby and I went kayaking for our 5 year anniversary. He fell in and I missed it! Wish I could've gotten pictures. I turned around and he was on his way out of the water already. I did get this very nice picture of a family of geese. Hope you enjoy.