The wool has been bought, the needles have been bought, a tension square has been knitted and hours have been spent mulling over the size so it must be time to start.
The pattern calles for a cotton silk blend, but I have chosen a 100% cotton, as this little cardigan is for summer and I want it to be as cool as possible. I ended up with 10 balls of Jo Sharp DK cotton in the colour 'Carmen', which is a dark red, almost a burgundy. This photo shows the colour best.
The next issue was the sizing, the pattern had sizes for a 36" bust and a 40", while I am a 37". I hmm'd and haa'd and finally decided to just make the 36", my knitting is a bit loose and I would rather have something a touch to small then a top I am swimming in. Plus, you have to love ravelry where you can see so many versions of this made up by every different size.
And so, I begin. And up until about row 9 it was going very well. The first 10 rows are a seed stitch, which it took me 2 tries to figure out (turned out you have to move the unknitted yarn with each stitch, which makes sense). But then at row 10 (I think) I managed to do something very weird, I thought it was dropped stitches, but as I ended up with two extra stitches after attempting to fix it I now have no idea. Here is my attempt at resolving to the situation.
So now I am left with the dilemma, to tink or not to tink? Can I live with this little mistake, it is at the back after all, or is it worth the trouble to undo those rows and re-knit them. If you have any thought or advice then please let me know :-)
I'd go back and fix it if I were you. It would annoy me for the rest of the cardigan if I didn't. You could even take it into your yarn shop and get someone to have a look. You might not need to undo it all but just those few stitches that are the problem.
ReplyDeleteTake one large deep breath. A swallow of a stiff drink (but not too many cos you might drop a stitch). Fix it. Otherwise, (at least if you're anything like me) you'll be noticing that mistake-let forever after. Besides, that's not the least of your worries! You have all that splitty yarn to live with! Actually I love the yarn - it's what I'm using for a granny square blanket - but I can't tell you how over the 'splitting' I am!!! Good luck.
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