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The current bane of my existence is the left Hurry Up Spring Armwarmer. In total, I have knit four of these armwarmers. I knit one but didn't like the colorway, so I scrapped it. I knit a full pair for my mom in a green and blue colorway (her two favorite colors) in Noro Silk Garden. I picked up a couple of skeins of Kureyon so I could knit myself a pair. When I made my mom's, I didn't realize that you're supposed to flip the chart so that the two are mirror images of each other, so I decided to make that adjustment on mine. Big mistake (by the way, I just spelled "mistake" as "misteak". Hee!). If I had done any snooping around online, I would have come across the many people who decided to just knit the chart the same as the right hand. I had to rip everything out after knitting up 15 rows because it wasn't coming out right. I figured out what the problem was, started knitting again, and it was coming out beautifully. I picked it up last night, and finished the whole thing while we watched "Signs" on TV. Only one problem occurred during all of that, and that was that the adjustment to the pattern for the left-hand thumb gusset turned out to be something I didn't like (it offsets the ribbing pattern by one stitch) so I dropped and reversed the stitches to fix it. I wove in the ends, closed up the thumb gusset hole, and slipped that baby on my arm. Something wasn't right. I'd started messing up the chart pattern again towards the end of the armwarmer. I decided that it wasn't a big deal, it looked good anyway, then went up to bed. And tossed. And turned. And freaked out about mean aliens. I should never watch scary movies regardless of how funny/serious they are, and no matter how totally cute Jaoquin Phoenix is. Especially if they have aliens in them. Henry cried around 1:30 and I nearly jumped out of my skin it startled me so much. Finally around 2 or 2:30 I was able to get to sleep. This morning I woke up knowing that I would have to rip everything out to where my mistakes (again, "misteak") started so that's what I did. I figured out (again) what I did wrong (again) and fixed it. I was feeling very pleased with myself whilst admiring my work and realized that actually, I started screwing it up just below the thumb. Once again I figured it looked all right and who would notice, but as I was thinking it I took the needles out and started ripping. Also, I hate unweaving ends. So, now I've knitted back up to where the thumb begins, which is exactly where I started out last night. This time I'm triple-checking every row, and I'm definitely not going to watch any scary movies.