so, I knitted the back, the two sleeves worked my way up the front, cast off in the middle for the neck, put the left over stitches on a stitch holder and continued up one side to the shoulder
and then realised that I'd made some horrible mistakes the first was to buy the yarn for the sweater even tho three of the colours I needed were now discontinued. . .
the yarn - a mix of baby alpaca and merino wool constructed as a hollow core chainette for "maximum lofts", whatever that means - is a Rowan one called "lima" and should be available in colours with exotic Sothern American names such as amazon, pampas, chile, cusco, machu picchu, puno, nazca and peru. . . I'd had to buy a different mix of colours, which was fair enough, only I then ran out of two as I hadn't purchased sufficient, so went back to the store and found I could in fact still order one of the discontinued colours; the problem I enountered arose because when I knitted the *K2 P1/P2 K1* rib for the front I mistakenly added in a *K3 M1* on the first row after the rib (which was the instruction for the sleeves and not what needed to be done on the front) so I had far too many stitches (a quarter more than I needed - quite a lot when the stitch count should have been 117); so then I unravelled right down back to the last row of rib, started again from there correctly, but now adding in the new colour to make up for the ones I'd run out of and got so carried away with the new look of the stripe pattern that I knitted about 30 rows more than I needed when I should have cast off for the neck, so I unravelled again. . .
and then realised that I'd made some horrible mistakes the first was to buy the yarn for the sweater even tho three of the colours I needed were now discontinued. . .
the yarn - a mix of baby alpaca and merino wool constructed as a hollow core chainette for "maximum lofts", whatever that means - is a Rowan one called "lima" and should be available in colours with exotic Sothern American names such as amazon, pampas, chile, cusco, machu picchu, puno, nazca and peru. . . I'd had to buy a different mix of colours, which was fair enough, only I then ran out of two as I hadn't purchased sufficient, so went back to the store and found I could in fact still order one of the discontinued colours; the problem I enountered arose because when I knitted the *K2 P1/P2 K1* rib for the front I mistakenly added in a *K3 M1* on the first row after the rib (which was the instruction for the sleeves and not what needed to be done on the front) so I had far too many stitches (a quarter more than I needed - quite a lot when the stitch count should have been 117); so then I unravelled right down back to the last row of rib, started again from there correctly, but now adding in the new colour to make up for the ones I'd run out of and got so carried away with the new look of the stripe pattern that I knitted about 30 rows more than I needed when I should have cast off for the neck, so I unravelled again. . ..
*SIGH*
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mind you, if that's the least of my problems I don't know what I'm complaining about
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(it's not and I'm not)
in the BIG scheme of things it doesn't really matter - I mean, it's easy to unpick mistakes in stitching. . . if only life were like that! but if life was like that we wouldn't create as many rich patterns - would we?
in the BIG scheme of things it doesn't really matter - I mean, it's easy to unpick mistakes in stitching. . . if only life were like that! but if life was like that we wouldn't create as many rich patterns - would we?
4 comments:
Oh, I like your attitude. I need to borrow it, if I could please. Or--maybe I just need to adjust mine accordingly.
Nah. I'd rather have yours. LOL Mine's work a bit thin. :-/
Oh, but what a pretty sweater when it's all said and done--if it gets said and done, or at least done?
Done would be good! ;-)
Oh.
And what you said? It's exactly a part of the reason I don't knit...LOL That and I wouldn'ta bothered to undo the mistake and ended up with a hippo neckline with giraffe sleeves.
No foolin'.....
I think you are hugely clever. All I can do with these things is wear them.
What Christopher said.
Oh and what Mel said too about borrowing the attitude.
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