snugglekitty

So, I finished the revision of

starkeymonster's hat and she has approved it as being what she wanted. I also finished the striped knitted hat for my partner. I will take pictures but wanted to finished one more project first.

I am working on making a tea cozy, because I thought that would be fun and funny, and I really like tea. I'm using this pattern:
http://www.knitty.com/ISSUEwinter04/PATTkureyonkozy.html

It's great because I'm learning to knit on double-points and do new kinds of increases and decreases. Also the yarn is so pretty! However, I have run into a problem.

About halfway through the pattern, you start working on just one side of the cozy, so that you leave a space for the handle and spout to stick out of the cozy. That was a little weird, but I figured it out, knitting along the right side and then on the back end, as though it were not a circular pattern. In the tenth row of this, though, I got to the end of the row before I got to the end of the stitches in my pattern.

I went back and counted how many stitches I had had when I started doing the side. I had the right number - thirty-two. The rows in between had added four stitches and subtracted one, so the stitches on the needles were a total of thirty-five. Then I counted the number of stitches in the pattern in the row where it hadn't matched up - thirty-THREE.

My partner then cleverly suggested that I count the stitches in each row of the pattern to compare. The next row calls for thirty-eight stitches, again with no increases or decreases. The following row, thirty-three. The following row, thirty-six.

Does anybody have any suggestions of what to do about this? I'm kind of at a loss, especially because this is a part of the pattern that's very, well, patterned. It's not just "k to end."

Internet patterns, why do you torment me with your lack of usability?