Open Letter to those Two Purled Stitches:
Dear Pair of Pesky Purled Stitches- You hid so stealthily from me while I knit the sleeve of my sweater, waiting until the sleeve was soaking wet to expose yourself. You placed yourselves on the sleeve right where it would crease at the elbow so that you knew I would see you every time I wore the sweater. And you did it all to torment me. You knew that being faced the wrong way would cause you to catch the light differently than all the other stitches in the broken rib pattern. You wanted to draw attention to yourselves and away from the sweater as a whole. Multiple people told me that you were just two stitches and no one would notice, that you weren't worth the effort, and that I should just let you be. But you and I know that isn't true. From the moment you showed your faces, you should have known that you were doomed. I could not allow you to besmirch my sweater, and so you had to go. I admit that I was intimidated by you. ...