Twenty four rounds into the sleeve I realised that I had dropped a stitch about eight rounds before. Now I suck at picking up dropped stitches at the best of times, and quite frankly, the idea of trying to sort this out on four needles sent me straight to the gin bottle (which was empty, it being one of those days). So I decided I would have to rip the sleeve out and start again, and then I thought, oh what the hell, I'm going to rip back the entire thing. Because there were other problems, which I had been ignoring in the hopes that they would self-repair. For one thing, I had discovered that my tension on dpns is waaaaaaaay tighter than on straight needles:
As well as the difference in tension there, you can also see that when I bound of the shoulders, and knitted the neckband, I managed to leave a gaping great hole - or rather, two gaping great holes, one on each side. So it's back to the beginning. I'm still going to knit a baby yoda cardy with this wool, I'm just not going to make the same mistakes again (instead I'll make a whole lot of new exciting ones!).
In the interim (and to further delay any work on the v boring neckwarmer or the cursed sock) I started a second baby yoda - again (of course) not exactly as the pattern was written. Here is one front...
And I'm halfway up the other. Instead of garter stitch at the bottom I did six rows of scallop stitch; then I've continued the scallop stitch up the side; I've decreased much more than the pattern called for; and I've continued the scallop stitch into a band that will (hopefully) go around the back of the neck. And if I have to frog this one, I promise I will stick to the pattern next time!
After the baby yodas I want to do some thing like this gorgeous tank top. And then I'm starting to feel almost brave enough to knit an adult sized garment for myself. Almost brave enough... (Also I've just lost a whole heap of weight, and if I lose another few kilos it won't be half as daunting an idea as it was six months ago!)
It's a Knit Ranger day today - and I'm dying of jealousy. I want to be there, but my partner works every Sunday (and every Saturday) so I'm a solo Mum at the weekends, and there is no way I could take my feral children to a cafe to watch adults knit! One weekend soon I intend to hire a babysitter and head on over.
And that's me for today :)
1 comment:
It'd be great if you do make it to Knit Rangers. :-)
And I must admit, I'm always somewhat relieved to read of others considering just starting over rather than going back and picking up missed stitches, etc - if there's one thing I hate doing, it's picking up stitches. I'll do it if it's a couple of rows back, but otherwise - ugh! Glad I'm not the only one! :-)
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