Had to do it. The choice was either spend an hour and frog the rest of the sweater, or stop knitting. What kind of choice is that? I mean, really. So, with Coco’s help, I frogged the sweater and wound the yarn onto my swift. Then rolled it into a nice neat cake.

Then I started knitting block nine.

You can see the two colors next to each other where the Gateway cow is looking.

I think there’s a little booboo in the pattern. It says to pick up and knit a total of one hundred eight stitches from garter ridges at the edge of the blanket (I’m halving everything, so for me it’s fifty four stitches). If I did that I’d be short, or I’d miss some ridges, making that end of the blanket puckered. I ended up picking up sixty four stitches, one for each ridge. That means the pattern should say that a total of one hundred twenty eight stitches should be picked up, one for each garter ridge. This would work out much better.