Number One in my compendium of Rules for Knitting is now official:
#1. Stop, Look, and Listen to Your Gut
I finished two washcloths that I intended to give to my nephew and his wife along with a cake of Wool Fat Soap from Churchmouse Yarns and Tea as a thank you for a recent favor. My nephew is an Admiral in the US Navy, so I thought appropriate designs would be a Navy eagle in white and a Navy anchor in blue. I found patterns on Ravelry and decided to use Cascade Yarns Luna for the washcloths.
The Navy Eagle in white knit up quickly with a nice subtle image of the eagle —
After several brief looks and a suspicion that RS and WS may be reversed in the Navy Anchor washcloth, but no detailed follow up, this is what I discovered AFTER IT WAS BLOCKED and PINNED!!
Do you see it? About 1/3 of the way up it went from stockinette to seed stitch! How the hell did that happen?? And to add insult to injury, it doesn’t even look like a friggin’ anchor!
Off to the yarn shop to buy another skein of blue Luna. Hmmm…. can you frog and reuse cotton yarn AFTER blocking???
Twisted Stitcher 
Bummer!
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Sure is!
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It looks like an alien stick man! Hope it works the second time!
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Pat thought it looked like Kokopelli!! No one has said it looks like an anchor!! I think you’re close with your description!
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All I know is i’m sick of frogs.
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As long as there are knitters, there will be frogs…… and tinks, accidental YOs, dropped stitches and “design elements.”
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yep– thought it looked like an alien!
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