Knitterykate 2

I've been working on this tam all afternoon and am beginning to wonder if it's even worth it to continue. This project has been nothing but trouble from the start. Years ago I began this as an afghan but soon realized I had confused this yarn (one skein) with a very similar yarn that had five skeins. I found out that I could easily convert it into a tam and a free pattern was available on Raverlry! I worked on it for a while and after following the pattern realized it was going to be way too big. Off the needles it went! The tam sat in the ether for 13 years and I just re-discovered it today. Unfortunately, there was no record of needle size. Nor was there any indication of what row I was on. Also, it appears that the yarn is disintegrating! I unraveled it for a few rows to get rid of the funky and raveled yarn and then tried to figure out what round I was on. Alas! I threw up my hands in frustration and just decided to finish it off by doing a rib of knit 2, purl 1. Except it ...

  A good friend of mine gifted me with a sweater that was just about finished. She found it floundering in her WIPs and had no idea how to finish it. I love a challenge so accepted the unfinished sweater - needles and yarn included. All I needed to do was to finish the yoke, collar and underarms. I own the pattern but since I was away from home I couldn't access it. Thankfully, my sister did have the pattern and sent me a screen shot of the pages I needed. There were two problems though. My friend used size 9 needles where the pattern called for eights. No biggie - a little adjustment there. A bigger problem was with the number of stitches cast on. She had cast on an odd number and all sizes were even numbers. And no sizes in the pattern were even close. That meant i had no idea how many more rounds to knit before i started the placket. Carry on and do my best. So I did.  The finished sweater turned out better than expected and no huge problems were encountered going forward. ...