And so it was that I was very excited and happy about my lovely green multi-yarn cardigan sweatery thing. But while knitting along, it came to my mind how stretchy and draggy my first garter-stitch sideways-knit sweater had turned out, and I was having second thoughts, so I decided to turn what I had knit so far into a shrug. A nice rectangle, seamed for the arms, whereupon the stretch would be an asset instead of a liability. I knitted and knitted, and when it seemed big enough I seamed it. And lo, the neckline seemed a bit plain, so I picked up stitches around the neck hole, and knitted some nice 2×2 ribbing, and bound off.

And the bind-off was a little tight, and I was thinking that I probably should have seamed the arms a little less. And so it befell that I decided to unravel the ribbing, re-seam, and knit the ribbing again, since it had only taken about an hour to do the seaming and ribbing. And yea, it came to pass that I was home sick, and bleary-eyed, and sneezing, and became impatient with the unraveling process, and I did take up some scissors. And the lightning and the thunder of doom did rip through the sky, much like the blades of the scissors ripped through the ribbing and about 3 inches of the actual shrug. And I was forced to sup the watery gruel of misery with the spoon of crushing disappointment.

But from the ashes of the cardigan shrug of doom came an idea. I love the wine-colored Liesl I just finished knitting a few weeks ago. What if I knit another one, short-sleeved for summer, using 4-row stripes of all the green yarns???? Oh, hell yes!

The End ….or is it?