Warning: defiled yarn

I ran out of handspun yarn for the rug, so I picked up the baby cardigan, and kept on reading. Let me remind you, this is boucle yarn, full of little swirls and loops that get tangled with themselves all the time.  So if you make a mistake and have to rip back a few rows....



...you get snarls. And if you pull the snarls you get an ugly mess. And if you pull the ugly mess gently, little by little you eventually get your boucle yarn free from itself. Only it's changed. As in "defaced":



So I'm breaking yarn and joining a new strand. No big deal. Picking up those stitches is going to be a different story.