No Pain, No Gain

I bought this shirt on a total impulse when I saw it posted on FibreSpace’s Instagram feed. My father works at a hospital and husband works in insurance, so we’ve actually had talk of the new ICD 10 codes at the dinner table. The fact that I now know the code for an injury by knitting or crochet activity makes me laugh. Hopefully I won’t have to actually use the code for insurance. Right now all my knitting “pain” is mental and emotional. I’m still working on seaming a well-overdue sample. It’s time consuming, I’m not easily finding any sort of rhythm, and I am so nervous of doing it wrong. Again. I have knit this particular sample once before, seamed it up and sent it off. And then I learned I knit the whole thing at the wrong gauge and the seaming in two parts was not ok. GROAN. I try to learn from the mistakes and this project has been heavy on the learning.  So it goes, no pain, no gain.