Nightmare Mode 3

Last month, I gave myself permission to not feel guilty if I didn’t want to work on my Nightmare Mode blanket. You can read about it here, but the short version is that it was hard for me to get motivated to knit this blanket, which is an enormous undertaking, if my cat was just going to pee on it. We’ve been making a bunch of positive changes in his life that have helped curbed the behavior, but he still has bad days and chooses my things instead of his litter box. I’m basically an expert at getting urine out of stuff now.

Anyway, giving myself permission not to feel guilty about falling behind on my self-imposed Nightmare Mode knit schedule had a strange side effect on me. It became all that I wanted to work on!

For my third square, I decided to knit one of the exclusive squares we made for our GAL Guild subscribers in 2017. If I had been thinking about it, I would’ve done the Harley Quinn square first since we were just talking about Batman: The Animated Series, which launched Harley Quinn as a major character.

While I do plan to knit Harley Quinn later this year and share the pattern with you guys, instead I went with Titans Tower, home of the Teen Titans. My husband and I have been rewatching the original Teen Titans show, and it felt like the natural next square to knit.

Side Note: Raven, Beast Boy, Robin, Cyborg, and Starfire are already available through those links for you to download and knit/crochet.

I was doing awesome, feeling good and knitting fast, until Megan-Anne’s house ate my project bag. No one is sure how it ended up in her coat closet, but there ya go. The last time I remember having it, Mabel the Merciless and I were playing in her bedroom while Megan-Anne was in the studio mixing dyes. I distinctly remember Mabel’s Polly Pockets feuding with the Pikachus while I knitted the Titans Tower square. Occasionally, I had to put my knitting down to heal everyone with my magic wand, but I don’t feel like I would’ve left my project bag in a toddler’s bedroom. And if I did, how did it get in the coat closet? Like, Mabel refuses to go in there. That’s where her mortal enemy, the vacuum, lives.

Honestly, I’m just happy I didn’t loose it on the train like I had originally feared. I’ve had a bad habit of leaving stuff on the train recently like my favorite water bottle and the gloves Megan-Anne had knitted me for Christmas.

RIP Gloves. I will never live down losing you.

I got my little project back on Friday just in time to loose a game of yarn chicken. I am NINE ROWS away from binding off.

NINE!!!

It’s times like these that I wish I wasn’t such an incredibly slow knitter. If I had lost my game of yarn chicken on Saturday, I would’ve had time last night to try to dye up a mini-skein to get me through. Now it’s too late. The yarn won’t dry in time.

I can’t even dive into our box of leftovers since the blue yarn I was using was a throwaway! Sometimes dyes hit the yarn weird for a multitude of reasons and the colorway is off, and we end up giving them away or using them to knit for friends and family since we can’t sell them. Like, when I go into the studio tomorrow, I’m gonna have to try really hard to replicate this colorway for nine stupid rows. I’m so mad. I knew I should’ve weighted the yarn before I started this square to see how much yardage was leftover after knitting the Water Tribe square. I played me. I played me real hard.

Now, I have to decide whether I’m going to try to replicate this colorway or if I’m going to accept my losses and just switch to a different shade of blue for nine stupid rows. What would you guys do?

As soon as I decide what I’m going to do, I’ll finish this square up and share the pattern with you. You guys deserve it for sticking with me and my insanity.

~Jac

My husband suggesting sharing the pattern with you featuring the partially finished square, but I can’t stand the idea. I’m too Type A for that. I’m pretty sure it would bring me physical pain.

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