I've got this mental block when it comes to letters. If the order needs to be changed or the shapes reversed, odds are I'll screw it up. I call it the Leon Syndrome. When I was in junior high school, we were making Christmas cards using linoleum block prints. You carve out a design, ink it up, and then press it onto paper. The one I was doing was meant to say noel at the top. I did do the shapes correctly but I switched the order and ended up with leon. I was humiliated when everyone laughed, but think it is pretty funny all these years later.
The Leon Syndrome struck again yesterday. I was knitting several dishcloth squares at the same time. I wanted to make a little rug for the kitchen. The patterns I'm using were different sizes and not all of then had graphs. I carefully worked out a consistent size and how each pattern would be placed. I graphed the patterns that needed them. I didn't remember that the design is knit from the back. I didn't notice for about 20 rows.
I stuffed the whole thing in a bag and switched back to knitting a sock.
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