I started the Mojito Shawl (by BooKnits) in July 2017. I used a lace weight BFL/silk blend in a gorgeous aqua/teal shade. I knit on it pretty regularly throughout that year and into the next. In June 2018 I finished all of the knitting – it was so pretty on the needles.
And then I began the bind off. I knew it would take a long time to bind off, because there were so many stitches on the needles at this point, and because it was a picot bind-off. That means that you cast on stitches, and bind them back off and then bind off a couple more, and then lather, rinse, repeat.
And then, disaster struck. As I was pulling my project out of the bag to work on it some more, some of the stitches pulled off the needles and dropped down several rows. I couldn’t bear to deal with trying to pick up those stitches and figure out how to get them back into the lace pattern at the time, so I put a knitting needle stopper on the needles (and wished I had thought of using that before it happened), then carefully put the project back into the bag, hoping not to drop those stitches down any more rows.
Fast forward to 2021 and WIPGO. If nothing else, WIPGO has helped me to address several things which have been set aside for too long. And this month, the number assigned to my Mojito shawl was drawn. I pulled out the project bag, and finally addressed those wayward stitches last week. There were 4 of them when I got things figured out, not all consecutive, and not all at the same level of unraveling. Fortunately, none of the stitches contained beads, and though it took most of the evening, I seemed to be able to make heads and tails out of where they were supposed to be.
I continued binding off over several evenings, and bound off the last stitch February 15. After a bath, I blocked it. I didn’t aggressively block, just made sure the picots were laid down and not curled up. The lace naturally opened up very nicely. The leaves look so elegant with their center spines.
