Honestly, it wasn't terribly difficult. (I don't mean to scare any one away from this pattern.) I had my own problems.
1. Mostly I was sick of looking at this thing. It's the project I dragged to the hospital with me this spring, and so it's got a history.
2. I never seemed to want to work on it long enough to get past the "set up" stage that involved cables, gusset, and palm pattern all juggled on dpns, so every time I sat down to knit I had to spend far too much time figuring out what I was doing.
3. I'm something of a perfectionist (shocking, right?) and I couldn't get it to look just the way that I thought it should.
This was supposed to be my travel project, and I knew if I was having trouble finishing it at home where it was potentially quiet, I was never, ever going to get it done in a hotel room. So, I sucked it up, got it out, and kept working on it until it was done---well, half-done.
Now that I've picked up the stitches at the middle point of the scarf to work on the other half and gotten back to mindless knitting for travel, I've packed it up and put it back in my suitcase. Good riddance for now.
Besides sharing the excitement of finally getting this bleeping mitten done--sad what passes for excitement these days--I will pass on a wonderful new iPhone app I discovered for posting this progress on my Ravelry page. For a mere 99 cents, the Yarma app will post a picture that I take on my iPhone right onto the project page on Ravelry. Badda bing. Now that it's so simple, I'm far more likely to keep up with posting my progress. It does have it's limits, but what do you expect for a buck?
