Remember Emily? How I told you about how I’d gone wrong with Emily in this post ?
Well, I have a day off today and had planned to get Emily sewn up.
The sleeves were done and I had used the long drive to and fro my friend’s at the weekend to knit the neck band.
The neckband is an unusual beast – 8 stitches and knit 2 rows, purl 2 rows until “long enough”. So boring and strangely hard to do- 2 row of each stitch…I kept loosing it where I have knit, purl, knit, purl so ingrained in my psyche!
The neckband is then sewn on. Not an enjoyable construction technique at all but I can see how it picks up the edging pattern – it looks like this…
I gave the back and front a quick steam with the iron then started to iron the sleeves…
The cuff on the sleeves is unusual too. The main sleeve in stocking stitch is knit first then the cuff is picked up and knit on last. There’s a row of K2tog to reduce the stitches and give the gathered effect like this…
When I picked up the second sleeve I noticed a slight difference….
Can you see what I did?
ARRHHHGGG! 😯
I didn’t do the decrease! I stamped, pouted and swore. I swore quite a bit. What is wrong with me and this garment? I keep going wrong?
On the plus side – I noticed before I’d sewn it all up. And I only have to undo the cuff – not the whole sleeve.
Even so, I’m so miffed and sulking at me for being so stupid that I’m not speaking to myself. If I could manage it, I’d have a hissy fit and flounce out of the room away from myself I’m so mad!
I gathered all my knitterly, completer/finisher resolve and sat down to undo the bunder.
Then I screamed (again).
Can you believe it? I’d started to rip out the wrong sleeve 👿
Ben captured the moment for you…
ouch! I feel for you, I really do!! I hope you like this garment when its finally done!
Good luck!
Sue
I would have given up by now. Some things are just not meant to be… Good luck! Jill
You poor thing. Some days EVERYTHING goes wrong. I advise walking away, consume chocolate and return when calm. I find chocolate heals all ills and even if it doesn’t calm you down, gives you a nice sugar high to rush you through all the unpicking.
OMG!!! pulling out kidsilk anything is a nightmare. Pulling out the wrong bit is like….well like living on elm street! Hope you managed to pull out the right bit and find all your stitches!
Emily is really a beautiful sweater. I think it’s worth it. I sympathize with you because I am currently working on a pair of cursed socks. The mistakes weren’t so colorful as yours, but yesterday I frogged 1.5 socks because I finally realized that I was knitting the wrong size.
Oh man that is so horrendous!! Why is it when things go wrong they really go wrong? I blame hormones most of the time, but I wonder if male knitters have days like this too!
Hi Susan
Just a note to say I enjoy your blog – I was wondering about making Emily with some Rowan that I bought for a cardigan called Alef which I can’t master – but it seems Emily has her own gremlins!
Ugh. No way I’d bother fixing that. I’m so lazy. Or sometimes I say that and then I just have to walk away for a day or two to calm down first.
Hi Susan,
I’ve been looking at your Blogiversary and there is an omission. Please add amongst your acheivements – “Getting my sister back into knitting after many years absence” I’m thoroughly enjoying it, thank you. I love the blog too!
Carol
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