Look what arrived yesterday afternoon!  It’s the pilates machine that MiL ordered for us!  In digging up that link, I just realized that it’s called The Reformer — geez, that’s a bit intimidating, no?  A bit cell block matron, femme warden.  (note to self: think of an appropriate name for her)  Oh well, I could use a little reformation.  I did 30 minutes of reforming this morning ….

It is 9° here today – and that is without the wind chill factored into the equation!  brrrr — there is plenty of blustering going on out there too – I can hear the wind pushing trash cans up and down the street.

Lucky me I get to stay home and work on that poncho.  I did indeed end up ripping back two rows.  Here is the strange thing:  it is a typical poncho pattern, calling for an increase row followed by a knit row.  There are four increases – in pairs of two around a center front line as well as a center back line.  I set a stitch marker at the beginning of the round so I would know if I was to increase or not.  When I frogged back, I did it a few stitches at a time, so I know that the stitch marker stayed in place.  But now when I need to increase on one side, I need to knit straight on the other — how did that happen?  I realize that this is a pretty lame and confusing explanation of my problem, but if you followed that and have any insights, please share.  Because the increases are so easy to see, this isn’t going to stop me from finishing, it is just bugging me in that way that unsolved puzzles do ….