This sweater is cursed
I've been knitting merrily along on the top-down seamless raglan baby sweater, and I just finished my 76th row, split for the arm holes, joined the body, and knit another four rows down.
I started wondering, though... why doesn't my sweater look like the example? I scoured the pattern for where my math went wrong, and I counted the purl ridges to see it had about half as many rows before the arm split as mine did. Still I really couldn't figure out where I went wrong.
I reread the pattern over several more times, checking my stitch counts, the number of stitches increased per section, and everything.
Finally, I figured it out. This is what I was doing:
- Knit row with increases - 8 stitches increased
- Purl
- Knit straight across
- Purl
- Knit row with increases - 8 stitches increased
- Purl
- Knit, increasing again - 8 more stitches increased
- Purl
Sigh. Third time's a charm, right?
I can't believe I did something so dumb.
The good news is the father saw the sweater in progress today and said it was beautiful. He was really amazed by the evenness of the stitches and the softness of the fabric. I also learned that his wife just started knitting - another new knitter in the community!
(Let's hope for her sanity that she doesn't make mistakes like these.)
posted by Vicki @ 5/10/2007 12:42:00 AM
6 Comments
6 Comments:
Yes, third time IS a charm!!! Sorry, but I laughed, I've been there too lol
at least you know what you did wrong!
Oh yeah, I was laughing too. As I'm knitting it over, I keep laughing to myself about such a silly mistake.
I am doing that sweater too - I just bound off the bottom of the body and realized my sleeves were totally huge and messed up too! I was hoping they'd look more "right" the further I knit along, but they don't. I was doing exactly the same thing that you were and could not figure out where I'd gone wrong! I can't believe I never realized I was supposed to be increasing every other row instead of every fourth row. *Sigh* Now I have to re-knit the entire body. I have done everything but the sleeves, so this will be a lot of frogging. I feel so dopey, but I'm SO GLAD I found your blog and finally know what I did wrong!
Thank you, thank you, thank you. :)
-Amber Joy
Oh Amber, thank you. If anything can console that kind of mistake, it's knowing we're not the only ones who made it, right? Best of luck with your re-knitting!
Hey Vicki, I just found my redemption! The pattern online was CHANGED (read: fixed) after it was put on the website, and I had printed my copy of it before that change was made! See the pictures I posted in this entry for proof - maybe you had the same thing happen to you, and that means it wasn't our fault at all - we're still great pattern-readers after all! :)
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