Posted: March 13th, 2010 | Author: admin | Filed under: projects: sesame (olympic sweater 2.0), sweaters, tanis fiber arts green label, things i knit, yarn i use | Tags: crafty, frogging, handknit, knitting, sesame, stripes, sweaters, tanis fiber arts | No Comments »
Thanks to everyone for the advice in my last entry. I did seriously consider putting my sweater in the dryer, but I really don’t trust the machines in my building, and it just seemed like a better plan to frog and start fresh. I rewound all the yarn (but did not rewash it – life is too short), and did a lot of serious Ravelry-searching to decide where I was going to go from there.
In the end, I decided that what I needed was a new swatch (which I stretched a little this time, after washing, to try and at least get an idea of how the yarn would behave in a sweater) and a new pattern altogether.
The other issue I had with my previous sweater was that I planned it with positive ease, hoping for something cozy and a bit slouchy. Considering how much the yarn grew, this was a mistake. So, in the spirit of learning from my previous poor choices, I have new sweater pieces knit with no ease, and I’m cautiously optimistic.
Posted: May 30th, 2009 | Author: admin | Filed under: lace, lorna's laces shepherd worsted, projects: print o the wave stole, projects: worsted owl cardigan, things i knit, yarn i use | Tags: crafts, crafty, eunny jang, frogging, garter yoke cardi, handmade, knitting, lace, owls, print o the wave, sweater | 2 Comments »
This would be the next stage of my Owls sweater. What a disaster.
I’ve been trying to salvage the yoke, and make this into something I’d enjoy being able to wear, but it. . .has not been going well. The sweater hits me right up until the waist shaping – which I thought, at the time, was so clever, but ended up producing this weird billowy hunchback effect between my waist and my shoulders. It was super attractive.
Between that and the fact that the math on the yoke just wasn’t shaking down the way I wanted it to, I ended up spending the better part of an afternoon on Ravelry and decided to just frog the whole thing. I’m going to take the yarn (which I still love, and which is not that much worse for being knit up once before) and turn it into the Garter Yoke Cardi (Rav). Everyone will just be happier.
I am, on the one hand, a little sad that I have to let this sweater go, because I was so excited about it. On the other, it wasn’t going to be what I wanted, and I’m in love with this yarn, so I’m glad I’m grown-up enough to realize that now and not after I’d cut the steeks and destroyed my chances of using that wool for something else.
Also, this is happening. It’s a very special birthday present for someone I am 99% sure does not read this blog, so I’m allowed to mention it every now and again as I go.
Song of the Entry: Ashley Tisdale – It’s Alright, It’s OK (Listen)
Posted: May 25th, 2009 | Author: admin | Filed under: lorna's laces shepherd worsted, projects: worsted owl cardigan, sweaters, things i knit, yarn i use | Tags: crafty, frogging, knit, knitting, lorna's laces, mistakes, owls, purple, sweater | No Comments »
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.
