New Cook Book!

Hey everybody.
Got a new cookbook - it's actually vintage!
Found it at Argosy Books which has some great great finds.
I will be baking this weekend and let everyone in on whatever good ol' classic recipe I decide on.  They're all from 1930s-1950s!!!  

AUGH

First the Jester Hat, now the Cabled Scarf. It was a busy weekend at the frog pond.

I noticed that my cabled scarf had two large holes - apparently, some stitches had added themselves along the way; and when I tried to just decrease the stitches and get things back to the status quo, it created some openings where they shouldn't be. So I tried to rip back just a couple of rows, to just a row or two beneath where the abomination showed itself.

Things were going well... until I dropped three stitches. They slowly began to ravel downward, and since this scarf is chock full o'cabley goodness, I didn't know where to begin to pick them back up. Sighing, I just ripped the whole bugger down and cast on again. I've already got the beginning ribbing done, and worked through almost half of the first pattern repeat. Maybe I'll have this scarf ready for next winter?