Amanda's Squatty Sidekick: Take 2

Well, I did decide to frog the purse when I got home yesterday, and I'm extremely glad I did. The shape of the purse is SO much better this time around. I had made an error right off - in fact, the error was in knitting the first row after casting on. How much early can you make your error. The base of the purse consists of 60 rows. You create the sides of the purse by picking up stitches, along the base of the purse. I realize that I wanted a knitted row for the last of my 60 rows so as to be ready to pick up the stitches knitwise.
I also decoded the pattern before knitting. When I say decoded, I mean I need to translate the pattern into both pictures and smaller units of numbers. The pattern clearly tells how many knits etc between M1 stitches, but I NEED to know how that works. So, before I start knitting, I figure out how the pattern works. My first time around I didn't do this, I just started knitting. As the body of the purse began to get wonky, I wasn't sure what was wrong because I didn't know how the pattern worked.
So yesterday, after frogging the purse, I figured out the pattern and saw how the increases and decreases worked within the sides of the purse.
Now all I need to do is finish the handle, make the closure and, yippee, felt it.

To Frog or Not To Frog

Yesterday I began Amanda Squatty Sidekick from Interweave. It is a felted purse. I knitted most of the bag last night and all I have left to do is the handle and the flap. BUT it doesn't look quite right to me. So all day I've been thinking about frogging the silly thing and beginning all over again.
Now, I know that the individual stitches will not be so noticeable when I felt it, but it will have a very much pronounced shape and that's what worries me. I don't think I made the increases and decreases in the right places. I'm so anxious to finally felt something, okay to felt something INTENTIONALLY, that I want to just finish it. But on the other hand, if I don't LOVE the silly thing I'll never use it. And, hey, I spent some very hard earned money for the beautiful green wool (Manos del Uruguay) (still think I should have bought the red instead).
Well, lets see what I decide when I get home.

Just what I need

Yes, this is just what I need, another blog. But when I go to write I keep thinking that what I want to write just doesn't belong in one of the other two blogs that I have. I'm a very organized person (not) so I must have organized blog entries too. LOL

So here is my knitting blog.
The title, knitting my life away, takes me back to high school. I believe that is one of the comments I wrote to go in the year book the year I graduated. I unfortunately stopped knitting for a couple of years, but since the fall I've been knitting like a fiend. It is one of the driving forces in my life. And one of the huge money grabbers, LOL.

Hopefully I'll add more to this blog than I do the other two.