It looks like the yarn has been stretched out of some of the stitches - the result is random loops of yarn (kind of like when you're cross-stitching and don't pull the thread all the way through the back, ya know?) and then the correlating rows are gathered (like an elastic band). There are 3 or 4 of these happening, and I found that if I pull the stole from side to side, then the loops shorten but do not go away.
The only thing that I can think that caused this is Sammy.
If one can believe that.
At one point yesterday, I took a nap (hey, I'm unemployed, I can do that) and he was downstairs with me. I placed the stole on the floor beside the couch and maybe he thought he'd try to make a nice pallet out of it and rooted it to make it comfy for him. But I have no proof so I'm really not sure what happened.
As far as fixing it: I think I'm going to just continue knitting, knit on the border, and block it as-is. After it's all stretched out from the blocking, I'll clip the strings and then weave in the ends. It doesn't really seem as if it's distorting the motif too badly - almost like there's a purl row where there should be a knit - nothing too god-awful. But I'm going to ponder my plan of action a little more and see what I can come up with. Suggestions are definitely needed here!
But this baby is going to be HUGE:
I'm getting a little nervous about knitting on the border - the directions seem to say to knit on a border, and then knit a totally separate second part of the border (on different needles) and then graft those two together! What an undertaking - eeks! I think I'm going to look into other border options.
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