Just shoot me now

Becky Fix:


(Becky's cousin Ryan picked that shirt out for her. Kid's got some fashion sense.)



Things were moving along so nicely. I finished the right front of the Sam sweater. I was feeling good about reknitting the left front. I mean, there was the cable thing and the wrong size yarn thing, so one way or another, that left front was not going on this sweater (side note: there's enough of the wrong sized yarn to make socks. I'm slavering.), making it much easier to come to terms with knitting three fronts for a cardigan.

Those of you who are keeping score will remember that I had to drop the cable back and fix it several times (I stopped counting on purpose. If you really must tell me number you do so at your own risk.), and totally rip out and start over 3 times. But the right front went really, really smoothly, so I thought Ah. I just needed to get used to the pattern, that's all. Now I finally am, so this left front, my knitting nemesis, will no longer be able to frustrate me. So I've already dropped the cable down once to fix it and then, as I'm finshing the first pattern repeat (which would make me a fourth of the way done) I see that the cables are going all wonky again, and I can't figure it out because I was so careful to get them right. My method of making sure the crosses are in the right place is to count the stitches next to the viney thing. It turns out that this method will totally throw your cable crosses off if you're, say, missing a stitch in the viney panel (non-knitterly folks: it means you cross too early at every other cross, which makes things uneven and unattractive).

I have now cast on the left front of this @#&!$%! sweater 5 times. Who says a cardigan needs two fronts, anyway?

posted by Laura Y. @ 8:20 PM