Thursday, July 10, 2014

That sinking feeling

So last night, I'm knitting on the sleeves of my Bleecker Street cardigan, and it's going pretty well. I just finished the first ball of yarn, and I had also finished the fifth of ten repeats.


Then....I noticed something.


The texture stitch is supposed to make sort of a checkerboard effect with straight stockinette columns and purl bumps every other stitch of every third row. Except, well, my stockinette columns looked drunk.


Even closer, you can see why I just couldn't handle looking at this on my forearms. Nope.



So, being evening, I made the wise decision to put it down and deal with it again in the light of day. I had a very bright idea about dropping down the columns and turning the problem stitches.




While I was pulling up that first stitch, I could see that technically, yes, it would probably be possible to fix my mistake this way. However, it was taking a long time, it was making my tension pretty wonky, and I was going to have to do it on every. single. stitch.

I knew what I had to do. First, some liquid courage.


Then I ran my needle into the row of stitches just below the beginning of my drunken, wandering column.....and......RIIIIIIP.


Yes. I ripped my sleeves out AGAIN. This is starting to get ridiculous. This isn't even hard! I know exactly how I screwed it up, so I won't make that mistake again. I should have been incorporating the pattern into my "make one" row, and rather I started it up again after the make one, which was definitely not right.


Sigh. So here we go. Sleeves. Take three....

3 comments:

  1. Been there, done that. It's painful, but you did the right thing. You never would have been happy with it if you left it. No one else would have noticed, but you would always know it was wrong.

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    1. At least it's not lace weight....right? ;)

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  2. Oh no! This is why I never finish anything- on the third "rip out down to the cuff" I give up. I have a lot of cuffs in my knitting box.

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