My Yarn Along picture this week is looking remarkably similar to recent ones. Same-same book, same-same cardigan. But in the interests of truth in reporting, a more honest illustration of what I've been knitting and reading this week would be:
Hmmm... Yes, that's what not reading anything much and knitting something that no longer exists looks like.
I made a very big call on this book, declaring that it would be fantastic when I was just a chapter in. And it is very good. But because I'm not giving it the time and attention it deserves, I'm struggling to keep at it and therefore avoiding it at any cost. What I really need to do is take myself back to that first chapter and start over.
Starting over may have been the theme this week, at least with my Abalone's neckline. Having finished the body and grafted the shoulder seams, I got both armbands out of the way, then, shoulder to the wheel, I knuckled down to pick up about 300 stitches for the big circular neckband/front band thingamajig. I then worked the 16 rows required to create 8 'bumps'. It took most of the weekend.
The trouble is, with all that talk of jogless stripes in my head from last week, I decided I needed to do a jogless garter. So I did. Only to discover after 16 rows (4,800 stitches, or thereabouts, if you're counting) that the end-of-row marker had moved around to the side of the neck, meaning the seaming, though insignificant, would be visible. And while the garter may have been jogless, there was still a very obvious inconsistency in the stitching that, instead of being at the back of the neck where it was supposed to be in the first place, was now very firmly at the front in full view. Silly, silly, silly me. And apologies to any non-knitters who may be reading this gobbledegook.
Anyway, before attempting the epic applied i-cord cast-off, I decided to cut my losses and rip the whole thing out and start over.
But for a bad jogless garter call on my part, I'd have had a finished project to show you today.
Hoping there has been less ripping out for the other Yarn Alongers this week.
Oh! So sorry! I had a rough couple of weeks of knitting too, but it was because I just couldn't wrap my mind around an incredibly simple pattern! Too many interruptions -- like right now. Ugh...
ReplyDeleteI hope you are able to finish it this week.
Ugh, sorry it has all gone wrong, but starting over seems like the best plan (as much as I hate it as a plan!)
ReplyDeleteFingers crossed it goes smoothly this time around :)
I'm sorry....but are you speaking English or has the GM taught you Greek?
ReplyDeleteHa ha Wolly. Let's just stay ignorant receivers of knitty things and not even try to understand this new language?! Poor Greery, good on you for starting again. You know it will be gorgeous, eventually. Love you. Xb
ReplyDeleteSorry you had to rip out but I'm glad you found your mistake. It would have been more ripping if you had added the icord bind off!!!
ReplyDeletebummer. but.....look at the deal you got on that yarn! You got twice the pleasure of knitting it and you'll have a wonderful sweater in the end. win-win!!!
ReplyDeleteSomeone told me that knitting is a process, so now you you have the joy of getting to knit your project even longer!
ReplyDeleteHappy Yarn Along!
Oh dear! Glad you got yourself back on track. Can't wait to see the finished sweater on you.
ReplyDeleteOh, what a shame...I just ripped out a sleeve last night myself. I don't want to know how many stitches!
ReplyDeleteReverse knitting. That's a twist in the yarn. Had to laugh when I saw the empty photo. I hate it when books don't live up to what you hoped.
ReplyDeleteIkes! Sounds like it IS a starting over theme this week for you! Sometimes that is just the way it has to be!
ReplyDeleteOuch! with a big O! That would definitely drive me a bit batty. 4,800 stitches? At first I thought you said 48,000 stitches.
ReplyDeletei do love the gray... sorry about the setbacks.
ReplyDeleteI love that color and what you have knitted. I admire how you stick to things. Knitting can surely be like that! Thanks so much for sharing with us. Even if you don't think so, your knitting story inspires me to just keep knitting.
ReplyDeletei've never counted stitches like that, sounds scary. have fun casting on again!
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