A Bluestocking Knits

I got a little over-confident the other day, and stopped counting, assuming that I knew perfectly well what I was doing.  Hah!  Found that on one of the little "fans" I had some eighteen stitches instead of thirteen.  I tried to drop the stitches down at that point —

but was completely stumped by the multiple decrease at the left of the fan.  Adding or taking out yarn-overs I could have managed, but the decrease — which involves a complicated procedure of sl knitwises, K3tog tbls, and pass-overs — no.  I figured that I would have far too much yarn at these points anyway, even if I did get it back together in the proper order, and it would be too loose — so out it came.

After laboriously taking two rows out, one stitch at a time, I pulled the whole thing off the needle and smoothed it out on the floor, ripped back down to the mistake and rewound the ball, then poked the needle back into the stitches.  No photo for posterity, because at this point, Julia decided that the ball of yarn made a wonderful boat with a stray bit of yellow construction paper stuck into it for a sail.

But 48 hours or so later, I am well past the point at which I had to stop, and I am now counting every fan pattern as I make it.  Lesson learned!