It doesn’t matter how careful I try to be. It doesn’t matter how hard I comb through a pattern to try and make sure that there isn’t a single mistake. Even the best knitters and designers make them. Yes, there is an error in the Maelstrom pattern and I am certainly NOT perfect!

Suna, (who was very excited to be the first knitter other than myself to start the Maelstrom shawl on Ravelry) found a small error. On chart B, the very first stitch of row 43 should be a yarn over and not a knit stitch. I have corrected the error on the chart, uploaded a new version of the pattern, and added an errata pdf to the files explaining the error and including a corrected chart for those of you who have already downloaded and printed the pattern. Thank you so much Suna, not for just being my test knitter, but for being so watchful and letting me know of where you found the difficultly so that I could make the necessary correction for all the knitters that will come after you! (Also thank you for posting the project to your blog and letting me know that your LYS has gone crazy over the pattern.) For those of you who would like to see Suna’s version of Maelstrom in progress, go check out her blog! She’s a very talented knitter!

If you look at the top of my blog, you will notice that I have changed the “Pattern” page to “Pattern’s & Errata”. For now on, whenever I publish a pattern, if there are errors found, you will find the corrections under Errata, as well as a corrected full version of the pattern under patterns and a posting to the blog regarding any errors found. Unfortunately, mistakes do sometimes happen and I appreciate all the knitters who alert me to them. This is one of the reasons why I not only chart the patterns, but provide a written out version as well. On section B the written version is correct, and now on the chart it is correct as well.

I truly apologize for any inconvenience that this may have caused any one. I know how frustrating it can be to knit a project and not realize until later that there is an error with the pattern.

Errata for Maelstrom – For pdf versions downloaded before September 3, 2008