Is for processing the weekends thoughts and ideas!
You all provided an abundance of food for thought with your comments last week…thank you so much for your input!
Yes, I have been thinking LOTS of thoughts about that Great Cabled Disaster of a Sweater… starting with the painful thoughts of ripping the entire thing out.
And while that is a very real possibility for the sweater, I also considered a simpler starting point… buttons to see what that might do. I did not buy new buttons, rather I went to my button jar and pulled out 5 matching buttons and stitched them on. It helped… the tiniest bit. After sewing those buttons on, I am still not at all sure what the designer wanted with the button holes that she wrote in the pattern. Quite simply, they do not work… I managed to jam two buttons through two of the holes and if this sweater is not frogged… they will need some improvement. At the current size it also needs an additional button to snug up the collar.
Next on the adjustment list… the sleeves. The cuffs are just all.too.much. They need to be less bulky… and quite a bit tighter. It might not be too difficult to cut the current cuffs off, put the sleeve stitches on a needle and knit new, tighter, less bulky, better fitting cuffs. Still… this is a lot of work for a sweater that the scale is tipping more and more towards frogging.
I also did a bit of Ravelry searching over the weekend which might be the tipping point for this disaster of a sweater.
So after all this “thought processing” I am pretty sure I know where this sweater is heading… now I just need the right “binge watch” to get that process started!
Happy Monday all, I will see you all back here on Wednesday!
Oh, I am feeling empathetic pain for you, Kat! It may be best to frog (unless you need that expensive bathrobe) and move on in a happier knitting direction, whatever that might be. I recommend After Life or Suits on Netflix, and Succession is good if you’ve got Max. Wishing you good luck with whatever you end up doing!
I cannot wait to see what you do!! Having ideas and options is a great place to be.
Oh man! Sending all the healing vibes for your sweater problem. May you find the perfect binge watch and get on with it!!
Getting to this point in a sweater only to realize it’s not working is always heartbreaking — but, that said, the one thing that knitting has going for it that sewing does not is that it can be undone! As sad as it would be to have to frog at this point, you’d at least be able to reuse that beautiful yarn. (And, as I always have to remind myself when I have to redo something, I like knitting, so having to do more of it should make me happy!)
Hope you’re enjoying the sun today and feeling better about the state of this project.
Sending all the frogging juju to you!! I have frogged a completely finished sweater and, while it’s not fun to contemplate, once you start… WHEEEEEE!!! It feels great to put a project like that back to square one.
Oh man, as I try to remind myself when facing the frog pond, I’m just getting more value from the yarn and as Sarah said, I do like to knit.
I’d just . . . rip it, Kat. I know it sounds so extreme. But I have a feeling you’re never be happy with it — even if you spend a lot of time and effort “fixing” it. Some projects . . . just don’t want to BE . . .
Is felting a possibility? That would make it smaller, at least, although controlling the size might be difficult.