An FO deferred
In my haste to finish the toddler sweater, combined with the impossible quest for the perfect picked up neckline, I have managed to create my worst knitting fiasco to date. It involves slippery cotton stitches and ripping out when I really should have left well enough alone. It wasn’t pretty. Ladders running amok everywhere. I won’t bore you with the play by play. I will tell you I’m now six inches away from getting back to that neckline. Enough said. I don’t want to look at it again today, and maybe not tomorrow. I’ve got some work to do this evening and then I’ll cast on for that ChicKami.
The kid lives in Austin, anyway, where he certainly doesn’t need a sweater–even a cotton one–in August. And he won’t fit into the damn thing for at least a year. The rush was entirely of my own making, as was the fiasco. Which is usually the way things go.
Don’t be so hard on yourself ;-]
We all make those sort of mistakes. It’s good to aim for perfection ,but sometimes you have to leave the ‘imperfect’ but more than acceptable things alone.Learn lessons,be pleased with your work and workmanship ,then move onto a new project ,applying the lessons learnt to that – and expect to make different mistakes !
Posted by: Emma
I totally do the same thing and get myself all in a knot over some deadline I’ve invented myself. Put the thing aside, cast on for the ChicKami, and go back when you’re ready. It will be OK! Deep breaths… coffee…
Posted by: alison
I am so totally in the middle of the same mess! I’m making a 6 month old size sweater for a baby that isn’t even born yet (hello?) and I have made a 3 hour error! Why am I rushing? Anyway, I feel your pain!
Posted by: Sarah
whoa nelly. OK couple deep breaths. it’s OK – you will recover. and don’t fret – altho i have not actually committed any such disasters yet today – i FEEL exactly that way right now so i’m sure there is one to come.
Posted by: carolyn
OH! I sympathize. (Been there, done that.) May those ladders be quickly repaired without further anxiety!
After a few rows on that ChicKami, you’ll feel rejuvenated enough to fix up that toddler sweater. Show it who’s boss 🙂
Posted by: Becky
Thanks for the encouragement, everyone. I think I may screw up the courage to face the sweater again this weekend.
Posted by: Cari
And just what IS it about picking up neck stitches? I hate to do it, so much. I usually just end up crocheting them ’cause I’m so scared, and then I hate that too. I need the Perfect Method. Sigh…. good luck!
Posted by: Rachael
I do that all the time…except unless it’s truly awful, I just leave all the mistakes in my knitting. 🙂
I am halfway through a baby sweater and I may run out of yarn. I bought enough yarn, but a ball fell out of my bag LAST WINTER and I’m not sure I have enough to finish, even with the yarn from teh swatch. So now the UFO just sits there on the shelf. 🙂 I’m sure the baby is too big for it already!
Posted by: Alexandra
Throw metal, threw metal, have thrown metal…
Posted by: alison
Cari, I hope you’re not stranded somewhere! I just got to work and found out on the Internet about the power outage in NYC. Everything OK?
Posted by: alison
Don’t be so hard on yourself ;-]
We all make those sort of mistakes. It’s good to aim for perfection ,but sometimes you have to leave the ‘imperfect’ but more than acceptable things alone.Learn lessons,be pleased with your work and workmanship ,then move onto a new project ,applying the lessons learnt to that – and expect to make different mistakes !
Posted by: Emma
I totally do the same thing and get myself all in a knot over some deadline I’ve invented myself. Put the thing aside, cast on for the ChicKami, and go back when you’re ready. It will be OK! Deep breaths… coffee…
Posted by: alison
I am so totally in the middle of the same mess! I’m making a 6 month old size sweater for a baby that isn’t even born yet (hello?) and I have made a 3 hour error! Why am I rushing? Anyway, I feel your pain!
Posted by: Sarah
whoa nelly. OK couple deep breaths. it’s OK – you will recover. and don’t fret – altho i have not actually committed any such disasters yet today – i FEEL exactly that way right now so i’m sure there is one to come.
Posted by: carolyn
OH! I sympathize. (Been there, done that.) May those ladders be quickly repaired without further anxiety!
After a few rows on that ChicKami, you’ll feel rejuvenated enough to fix up that toddler sweater. Show it who’s boss 🙂
Posted by: Becky
Thanks for the encouragement, everyone. I think I may screw up the courage to face the sweater again this weekend.
Posted by: Cari
And just what IS it about picking up neck stitches? I hate to do it, so much. I usually just end up crocheting them ’cause I’m so scared, and then I hate that too. I need the Perfect Method. Sigh…. good luck!
Posted by: Rachael
I do that all the time…except unless it’s truly awful, I just leave all the mistakes in my knitting. 🙂
I am halfway through a baby sweater and I may run out of yarn. I bought enough yarn, but a ball fell out of my bag LAST WINTER and I’m not sure I have enough to finish, even with the yarn from teh swatch. So now the UFO just sits there on the shelf. 🙂 I’m sure the baby is too big for it already!
Posted by: Alexandra
Throw metal, threw metal, have thrown metal…
Posted by: alison
Cari, I hope you’re not stranded somewhere! I just got to work and found out on the Internet about the power outage in NYC. Everything OK?
Posted by: alison