famous last words

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So, about ten minutes after I wrote my last entry, I put my sweater onto some scrap yarn and tried it on.

Yeah.

The yoke was terrible. Too low in the back, too big all around, weird-looking, and I could tell from looking at the pattern directions that it wasn’t going to get fixed by extrapolating the proportions I’d worked out – my worsted-weight row gauge was just too small for the yoke directions to make any sense. I’m not going to lie, the sweater and I almost had to go on a break.

The pie helped.

Also, I had the bright idea of looking at other sweater patterns knit in worsted weight with garter stitch round yokes (although I did toy with just throwing my hands up and doing a raglan yoke, a la February Lady), which led me to Cobblestone.

It also led me to frogging back down to the end of the owl cable panel and starting the yoke all over, but whatever. Nobody ever died from that.