Unraveling

The other night as I was knitting I found I was having trouble picking up the 16 stitches needed to attach the heel flap to the rest of the sock.  I finally managed to get 16 then kept going for another round or two before noticing the heel just didn't look quite right.  Well, it turned out that instead of knitting 32 rows on the heel flap, I had knit just 22, thus making the heel shorter.  BIG question--keep going and have a smaller sock, or unravel several rounds and fix the problem.  After consideration, I opted to unravel.  Very carefully I took stitches off and returned to the spot where I could add the needed rounds.  I found it frustrating to have to undo my work, but I'm very glad that I did.  Now the heel is the correct size; I will find it fits better and is more comfortable, worth the hour or more that it took to fix.  Lynne Tyler, a quilter whose blog I follow, once said, "No matter how far you've gone down the wrong road, go back."  Sometimes easier said than done, but I suppose she's right.