I was knitting, knitting, knitting 'round and 'round quickly because I was so excited to see my first gusset fully formed. I finally got to the last increase row and saved my thumb stitches off onto my waste cotton yarn, tah dah. Then it was time to cast on four stitches using the backward loop cast on. So I tried. And then I tried again. Then I even referenced the above photo I took of my teacher Maria doing it, (so that's not my glove) but she's putting the stitch on the wrong needle. You wouldn't think that would matter, but it really screwed me up. Many tires later, nope, nada, still not working for me. What's going through my head? Maria's voice saying, "This is the cast on they teach children. It's so easy they probably don't even mention it in Vogue Knitting." And she's right, they don't. Thankfully she put two other cast on options in her pattern — cable and knit on. So I looked those up and chose the knit on. I actually did successfully teach myself to knit on the four stitches using the Vogue book. Phew, I can still learn something. I was starting to wonder if I'd really truly lost my mind. So you thought this was a happy ending? Not so fast. I continued knitting only to realize that my first knit into the cast on stitch wasn't tight enough and left a pretty big hole. Note to all, make that first stitch damn tight. Then I found a crappy accidental yarn over right on the outside seam and it was below the "on hold" thumb stitches. At least I didn't start irrationally crying. I knew it would have to be ripped out, and I knew in my frame of mind I shouldn't do it myself. I had to take an emergency trip to the knitting store and find Maria. Thankfully she was working on Sunday and she easily recognized and solved the problem. She even showed me a frogging trick. Using the needle you poke it through and under the left stitch of each "v" in the stockinet pattern all the way across the row. Then when you rip, it ends with that row on the needle ready to knit. It was cool. Hopefully I can repeat it?! I'll be knitting it all over again this evening, stay tuned.

I really look forward to the day I can read my knitting and fix errors without panicking.