I love looking at your beautiful lace wraps—I’m getting closer to knitting one for myself! Anyway, I know what you mean about knitting in the correct light. I’m not affiliated in anyway with the company. I found these lamps at a local (Minnesota) lighting store and have now purchased five! Two floor lamps for two different reading spots and a desk lamp with a swing arm for the computer desk. I’ve just purchased two more, one floor and one desk, for my son who starts law school next week. (It was a preemptive measure because I knew the ones I had would have been taken!) I love how the light falls on your work/book/knitting and not in your eyes. I set the lamp so that the shade is at eye level and the light just puddles right where I’m working. Here is a website that talks about the lamp’s features:
http://www.14ushop.com/light/reading-desk-floor-lamps.html

Wow.. great info on lamps!
AAAAAAAghhhhh, on the ‘yarn droppings’, I DID gasp.

I feel your pain with the shawl. I hope you are able to correct the error with not too much time involved.

Lighting….such a problem!!! I have an Ott light that I loved, absolutely loved, till I got my new glasses that aren’t anti-glare as those scratch easily and the glare seems intensified now.

Will wait with interest to see what you do with the lighting situation.

Good luck with the shawl!

Isn’t it amazing how knitting holds it’s devious little self together?

A note on your edited to add- I’ve done that before, because I had the same thing happen to me. It really isn’t that noticeable if you weave in your ends really well. I couldn’t tell afterwards, and I couldn’t see it on a galloping horse. 😉

Good luck with whatever it is you decide to do!

I have no words of wisdom for the dropped stitches 🙁 As for the light…We got 2 cheap Wal-Mart Gooseneck Desk Lamps (Mainstays I believe)and put 40watt Halogen bulbs in them. They work really well for lighting up your working area and with the halogen bulbs provide enough light for darker yarns and smaller needles.

Oh Alison, I am soooooooooo sorry – I know how sick that makes you feel but, if it’s any consolation to you at all, your sharing this makes those of us who frog frequently feel a little better….if the really great knitters have amphibious moments, it seems there’s hope for the rest of us. 🙂
That probably didn’t help…but thank you for sharing and I do hope you’ll be able to rescue your work without having to begin all over…it is absolutely gorgeous!
-Abby

oooo, that caused me physical pain. I could see the dropped stitch, laughing at you as it dominoed down…

Now You’re the one who needs the hugs. If anyone can recover, it would be you.

As quickly as you knit, though, it might be faster to just frog. (Gasp, did I SAY that?)
This, too, shall pass.

Looking at your time stamp, that’s about when the Knight came home with his news.

Now, you simply must stop the stitch dropping stuff! 😉

Ow. That hurts. I know – I found a mistake on my Julia shawl and had to go back six rows. I was afraid to just take out the needles and unravel because the yarn is thick/thin and slippery. So, one by one, out it came. Now I’m back to where I was and I’m feeling like I just may be a lace knitter, since it seems that only a dedicated lace knitter would do that. Thanks for all of the help and inspiration!