covington can kiss my purple starfish

what a PITA this project was.  i'm not really feeling in the ranting mood so here are the highlights of suckage in as spare of prose as i can manage:

1. missed gauge 3 times and had to frog 3 lace repeats (or 21 rounds or ~2100 stitches) all 3 times before i could even get out the gate.
2. covington yarn - ah, what a roller coaster ride it was! first, you were smooth and silky and easy to work with, especially since you were cotton and i usually loathe that fiber. but then you started to split like crazy. and you decided you hated my blunt bamboo circs. and then you kept puffing up linty things that made my nose itch and run.  and you developed a strong antipathy for k2tog, which was the majority of this pattern. now, alas, you are persona non grata in my book.  never again, covington.  never again!
3. JSSBO - another love/hate relationship.  i love the look of you, the flexibility and stretchiness of you.  but what the hell with reverse YOs?  why?!  WHY?!  because reverse YOs, coupled with splitty yarn and blunt bamboos equal an experience akin to paper cuts bathed in alcohol.  i persevered but binding off with you 4 times for this project was not pretty.

i shall take pictures of the FO and post here at a later date.  or perhaps just on my project page on rav since no one i know from my knitting community reads this blog anyway.  don't get me wrong, gentle reader: i ended up loving the garment, even if it's not really my color.  and i will probably rock the look for multiple seasons because it's a great layering piece. so i should probably show it off.  i'm just monthly and bloaty and i think on the road to a summer cold-y right now, and since i don't have good luck with photos in the first place, i wouldn't hold my breath for a pictorial anytime soon.