The Juneberry Triangle shawl – my Loopy Ewe 4th Quarter Challenge project – gets one more chance to behave and if it continues to misbehave it will be ripped back and made into something else!
It’s growing slowly but I’ve ripped out as many rows as I’ve stitched I’m sure! Those dang yarn overs at the beginning/end of rows or around the markers – I keep leaving some of them off as I’m doing the pattern repeat.
On the right side of the pattern, I can read the actual stitches as I go along and tell if I’m getting off but the wrong side is not just purl stitches but lace work as well and I cannot read that side at all as I go along.
I’m just not sure I want to think this hard and ripping back a row or two will not be as easy as this thing gets wider. LOL
I think I’ve ripped back to where I ran amuck so can fix it and see if I can’t keep myself on the right path but maybe I’ll go stitch on socks or mittens or something else where I don’t have to concentrate so hard! 
I spent a good part of the morning searching all the Ravelry patterns for mittens. There are some lovely ones that I would refer to as “European style” some say they are Finnish, some Swedish, or other European countries - but they are the stranded ones with a pointy thumb and hand tip – so many lovely stranded designs. But I may just start with a plain pair first.
Do you knit mittens? Do you have a favorite pattern? Do you knit on straight needles? in the round? cuff up or top down? I’ve knit more mittens than I can count over the years on straight needles — that was before I started knitting socks and then made a pair of mittens in the round. I do like not having to seam the mitten and the thumb but I’m not fond of knitting a thumb in the round. Just too much switching of needles – but thank goodness it doesn’t take many rows to make.
