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pixiecrinkle) wrote2004-12-30 09:17 am
pixiecrinkle) wrote2004-12-30 09:17 am
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So, after last night's sweater disaster, I set about to try to fix it. I dropped the stitches down and did a couple of decreases up a few rows, then determined that it was going to be way too loose right there. So I started ripping out.
Now, there were a few of those mistakes of the "I know they're there, but no one else will be the wiser" variety. And then there was the intarsia rectangle on the back, which looked awful because the floats were too tight and it was bunching like crazy. I'd planned to fix that by snipping the floats and tacking them down with thread. But because I had multiple things that could be fixed, I ripped back further than the missing raglan decreases.
I ripped over one ball of yarn out of the sweater. Clear back to the row the sleeves were attached on. Which means, even though it was really starting to look like a sweater last night, it now looks more like a weirdo peasant top again. So basically, a week's worth of work. It would have been more than that, but I didn't knit much this past weekend.
So now, the sweater I wanted to be done for Christmas, then to be done for New Year's is looking more like Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. Someday, I will finish it!
Now, there were a few of those mistakes of the "I know they're there, but no one else will be the wiser" variety. And then there was the intarsia rectangle on the back, which looked awful because the floats were too tight and it was bunching like crazy. I'd planned to fix that by snipping the floats and tacking them down with thread. But because I had multiple things that could be fixed, I ripped back further than the missing raglan decreases.
I ripped over one ball of yarn out of the sweater. Clear back to the row the sleeves were attached on. Which means, even though it was really starting to look like a sweater last night, it now looks more like a weirdo peasant top again. So basically, a week's worth of work. It would have been more than that, but I didn't knit much this past weekend.
So now, the sweater I wanted to be done for Christmas, then to be done for New Year's is looking more like Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. Someday, I will finish it!