I used that phrase as a comment just now and I think it's a grand title.
I've caught it.
If you're coming in late on the game, I kinda explained it a few posts ago...every time I sat and knit at a sweater that I haven't gone back to work on since? I'd rip back all the work I'd done before bedtime. I thought it was just me and that sweater. I thought it was just an isolated incident...I was wrong.
It has spread.
Remember the mistake rib scarf I mentioned I started out of Lambs Pride Superwash in Bulky? (BTW as a total tangent, in case you are here cuz you are looking for the stitch pattern for such a scarf with such yarn: CO a number divisible by 4, plus 1, like say: 29. s1 k2,p2, every row.) I think I've reknit it so many times I should be done by now...but I'm not.
I'm about to rip out 17 inches of unblocked scarf.
Why?
Oh maybe cuz when I flatten it out, to, you know, get a sense of it's width? It is 6 inches wide, which is perfect! But when I stretch it out so you can see the pattern in all it's coolness? Yup, over 10 inches wide.
Like many things I find kinda stumpy on my person, my neck seems to be one of them...even if I stretch it, my neck will still only measure 3 inches at the most. No, I don't go in for turtle necks much, why do you ask?
This is bulky yarn. It is making a bulky material....I'm thinking a CO of 17 stitches might be more appropriate....or ditch it all and find thinner yarn...
3 comments:
That's so aggrevating! I've had to rip out scarves before and it's no fun. All that knitting down the drain. But, you'll be happier with it in the end, right? Have a great weekend!
You're so much more ambitions (read: non lazy) than I am. I keep knitting despite those problems and then end up with a POS that I never wear.
I know nothing of knitting. Nothing. And yet I completely understand a descent into the Underworld and losing the shirt off your back.
See? There are MANY reasons why I enjoy you. And the blog.
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