Like an Olympic hurdler who hit too many hurdles, my Ravellenics’ dream of making a four foot knitted rib scarf has crashed and burned. I now call this project the Scarf from Hell because it looks like a cat swallowed it and hacked it up a few days later.

My original intent of going to the end of the four feet no matter what without stopping and frogging just could not be realized. At one point, I had the hole the size of the Grand Canyon and wacky loops hanging off. In my ignorance, I thought I could fit it by just frogging a few rows.

Um…yeah..um…that did not work. Somehow I didn’t get the cast on back onto the needles correctly, and my knit, purl, knit, purls turned into knit, knit, purl, knit, what? purl, purl, what?

So then my thoughts were that I will do a few rows of knit stitch and then start back over with ribbing. Of course, I didn’t think about the fact that knitting stitch would be much wider than ribbing.

I’m thinking now that ribbing just does not like me.