Recently, I re-discovered a pattern that I had in my ravelry library – Chickadee Cowl – a free pattern by Through The Loops. It’s been in my library for a while but I just realized that I had the perfect yarn for it.

Three skeins of Zitron’s Loft Color – a bulky single in 100% Merino. A dear friend sent me this yarn from Germany and I had yet to find the pattern(s) for its use.

The Chickadee cowl looked perfect – so I cast on…

#1 – I misread the instructions and used wrong size needle, despite casting on the correct number of stitches…

#2 – Found the right size needles (DPNs) – counted stitches three times and somehow by row 2, stitch count was off…

#3 – Please see #2…

#4 – Found comparable size circular needle to cast on with – again, by row two, ‘easy’ stitch pattern not matching up.

At that point, all was ripped out, needles shoved back in the case and yarn thrust back in the bag and put (not so gently) out of sight.

Mama never said there’d be days like THIS!