It's Spring at the Bat

Spring is here and that can only mean one thing:

Baseball is back!

And with baseball, comes baseball knitting:

The long dormant Oakland Athletic's supporter scarf, in the style of the Thin Mint Scarf.

It was a pretty good night for baseball - the rain had stopped the day before, there was recognition of old and new baseball players, and a little firework action during the National Anthem.

Unfortunately, the home team's game started to unravel (more) near the end of the eighth inning.  As the baseball gods would call it, so did the scarf's:

pardon the grainy-ness... these are camera phone shots

As I was turning the scarf, row after row, I kept thinking I was seeing a hole in the green with a little yellow shining through.  *Note to self: investigate all apparent holes in knitting before continuing*

In the 8th inning, after 20 something rounds, I finally looked closely at the "hole" only to discover that during the waning hours of last season, I'd split the yarn and knit twice into one stitch.  Since it was a single strand anchoring a column of stitches, I knew it would eventually break and leave a run in the scarf.  There was nothing to do but tear back to the offending stitch.

Fortunately, by the end of the game, I'd worked my way back up with one loose stitch per row where there had been two.  It's still a little ragged looking, but I'm distributing the loose yarn through the rows. 

Unfortunately, after tying the game, the home team managed to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.  The opening night crowd was subdued on the way back to the parking lot.  

Let's hope the team can find and fix their mistakes as quickly as I did! 

Comments

[melissa]

oh my! so glad you spotted the offending stitches when you did! what impressive repair work *at* the baseball game! you deserve some sort of merit badge for that - "field dressing a scarf" or something like that!