Heart stopping moment…
You know when you’ve spent hoours caculating and adjusting a pattern to fit your gauge and your body’s measurements???
Worked out the pattern, and double checked it. Now you’re ready to cast on!!! So, 336 stitches and 2 hours later, i am up to here on my Thermal (from Knitty).
Doesnt look like much, but when you are knitting on 3mm needles with baby wool, with twisted rib, its heaps.
Then i got to thinking – sh!t, did i adjust the cast on amount to compensate for my loose knitting gauge??? I was on the train. I didnt bring the pattern with me. I thought, maybe i didnt! I dont remember doing that.
My heart stopped and sunk. In a fit of pique i grabbed my shiny Addis, ready to rip the knitting of those smooth points and frogg the life out of it and me. But i stopped. I put it away and grabbed out my beloved’s sock (the 2nd one). 
As i continued around, one of the DPNs just fell away. Turns out it had snapped in half and was just being held in by the tension. (By the way, i had to photo shop the image of the sock to show the cables. Its the BFF sock by Cookie, in Purple Royale Cashmerino sock yarn from the Knittery).
So that became the 2nd heart stopping moment.
After taking some deep breaths, offering a prayer to Mary Thomas, and performing some emergency stitch holder surgery I decided to put my knitting away.
Look for the silver lining….. I’m going to my LYS at lunchtime today (Tapestry Craft in the city) to procure some new DPNs and maybe fondle some yarn. And i re-examined my gauge for Thermal – turns out i did work it out correctly – so glad the frogging incident did not happen ;).