Save My Sweater!!
I knew there was a reason my baby sweater was looking so weird!!
OK, I'm knitting a sweater based on the Elizabeth Zimmerman Best Baby Sweater and the 5-Hour Baby Sweater patterns. You knit it all at once, from the neck down.
You cast on 42 stitches, you knit several rows. Then the directions say, "K4 rows, casting on 3 sts at the beginning and end of the first row."
Instead, *I* knitted 4 rows, casting on 3 st at the beginning and end of *each* row. Now I am at the point where I am supposed to do an increase row, where I should be going from 48sts to 68 sts. Well, of course I already have 66 sts.
The increase row pattern is K3, *K2, M1* repeat from *, end K5.
What if I just K3, K2 M1, K 56, M1, K5. Then I'll have 68 sts and I can proceed normally-- right?
But do you think my sweater will be too bizarre? I *really* don't want to start over!! (FYI: I've knitted a total of only 19 rows so far, but still, I'd like to keep going.O
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sorry to be the bearer of bad news
But you will never be happy with that sweater unless you rip it back. And this is from someone who absolutely detests ripping.
Lynn Siprelle, Editor
I want the pattern!!!
Can I get these patterns online? I love to knit. I'd love to have them.
did it and glad -- thanks
Well, I ripped out and stitched back to where I was pretty quickly, and I must say that it looks more more like a wearable piece of fabric now! I am soldiering on.
Here's another ? for you knitting pros:
I think I did some accidental extra yarn-overs or something -- they aren't dropped stitches but around my increase rows (K2 M1 repeat) I get some biggish holes that look like my button holes. (I do have 3 extra stitches right now, so that's why I'm thinking yarn-over.) Any ideas to conceal? A little embroidery over that spot? There is only one that I am concerned about, as it will be right in front. The stitch is pretty loose in those rows anyway, but this one spot looks a bit goofy. I can't rip out again!!!!
Sharulee, I got the pattern for $4 at my local yarn store -- it is by a woman around these parts.
what to do
You can take a darning needle and take up the loose tension in the yarn throughout the row--just ease it into the surrounding stitches, like evening out the tension in shoelaces.
Lynn Siprelle, Editor
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