Screaming out loud!

Stuffmart still hasn't called and now I'm second-guessing myself and wondering if he said a couple of weeks rather than a couple of days. Tom wants me to call them but I don't know who to ask for or what to say. I hate being this bashful.

I'm ready to scream over my TKGA swatches. Or rather swatch 1. I do okay with it and when I move into garter stitch, my knit stitches in the ribbing open up like a flower blossoming. Aaargh! I've never had this much trouble with ribbing before in my life. And the more I work on it the worse it gets. I have done this one swatch exclusively for two days. I mean hours and hours just working on 2x2 ribbing. I've tried every method, three different needle sizes, two different yarns, different tensions. And in every single one of them I have at least some of my knit rows opening up.

This isn't my neatest swatch but I wanted to show the vertical ditches I am getting.

I don't know if anyone reads this blog but if they do and know the answer, I wish someone would tell me.