After working on a large project for a good 40 days and when you bind off the last row with 400+ stitches with a mixture of relief and anxiety, only to realize your bind off row was so tight it is making the blanket’s edge flip over and you have to frog the 400+ stitches, pick them up and reknit them with a stretchier bind-off, I am not sure whether you should feel sad that you wasted an hour on this project or happy that it is over. I am going with the latter because thank Bob this blanket is done.
Also, when you are working on a center-out blanket, when the initial rows fly off the needles, do you tell yourself ‘wow, I have reached half the size already, so I will be done with this in 1 week’ even when that little voice in your head is telling you, ‘but every row will be longer by 2 sts, so there is no way this will be done in 1 week’, you ask it to shut up anyway? Yeah, that would be me. There is the little voice again saying ‘I told you so’. Shut up already!
I had the same thing happen to me once with a shawl, except the bind off was so loose that it made the whole thing flare. So frustrating! The blanket looks lovely though.
Ugh, ripping off a rows on shawls can be tricky though if the last row happens to be lace. The blanket turned out well in the end after a good blocking.
I feel your pain! Glad you got it done though, it’s a pretty blankie.