Angry at knitting right now

Firstly, the Christmas Kitty Pis were a big success. At least two were in solid use before I even left to come home! Pictures to come.

Secondly, my dad requested those flip-tops for his fingerless gloves so he can wear them like mittens. I worked on one for about 6 hours using a top-down mitten pattern. I was going to stop at the thumb gusset and then sew or button them to the original gloves. I guess I misunderestimated (lol) my gauge because the mitten top turned out big and round like a newborn baby hat. So if anyone wants a charcoal gray alpaca wool ski cap for their newborn baby, let me know. (Seriously the yarn is pricey so I am going to frog it and start over.) It is incredibly irritating when something fails like that.

Thirdly, in anger at the mitten top, I began working on a beautiful lacy shawl (pattern called Pearly Elegance from KnitPicks) and I am thoroughly annoyed with that. I did OK for the first two rows, then totally f***ed up the first rounds of lace and had to rip it back about 8 rows. After that the lace came out well and I knew what I was doing.

Started the second lace rows (it's a repeating pattern of ten rows) and P.S. the fun fur is way too f***ing furrypuffy, I probably should have gone with the eyelash it called for. Nine rows into the second round of lace (carefully counting all the while) and something suddenly looked really wonky. Where the hell did that giant ladder come from?? I apparently dropped a stitch...somewhere...and it rolled down all the way to the bottom of the lace rows. *insert crying smiley here* There is no way to retrieve it properly and furthermore it probably screwed up the count everywhere. So I retrieved it in plain old knit and I'm going to look at it today and see how screwed up it is and if there's anything I can do. It is right near the end of the row so I might be able to fix it or ignore it. Wanted to scream at 11 pm last night though.

Grrrrrrrrrrrrr.