Sometimes life/knitting is perfect

I swear to god I'm not being paid to promote Mobile Makers. And in fact, I'm actually paying a decent amount of money to be there.

But I don't think I've ever loved anything quite as much as programming.

Actually, I've loved knitting that much... and we see where that has gotten me (rooms full of yarn and shawls and sheep shows).

(I'm saying that good things come from passions).

I would like to share two facts with you at this very moment. ONE IS KNITTING RELATED!!!!

Remember how I was on the death spiral part of the shawl? One of my many tricks for enjoying this part (and all parts) of the shawl is to not count the number of stitches I have. I just do the pattern until it looks biggish and then I count. Doing this has its advantages: you don't waste time counting a billion stitches, you don't constantly think about the sheer size of what you're doing.

Instead, you dig yourself into the comfort of what you love doing: knitting.

This can for sure backfire and that's what I thought happened the other day. I was working on my shawl when I noticed two things.

I was running out of yarn, and I had a lot of stitches. I started this project without calculating the amount of yarn I would need, but I figured I would just do the border in a different color.

After counting, I realized that I had actually gone past the stitches I needed to get by about 20 (which is ten rows of mind numbing stitch counts). Any knitter who knows my knitting style intimately (ggrrrowl) knows that I hate ripping stitches out.

Then I looked at the pattern. It turns out I was supposed to stop twenty stitches ago to start a new chart.... BUTTTT. The first 2/3 of the chart is the same as what I've been doing.

That's right. I stopped at exactly the right time and I am a knitting goddess.

The second thing I want to say is that custom delegation is literally one of the hardest concepts I have ever grasped. Remember how I was all, oh yea delegates do this? well... they do... but it's bad when you've heard 10 metaphors and all of them makes sense so none of them make sense.

After about a week it's finally starting to fully grasp it. But no time for explanations children. I have apps to make!