But when it comes to anything else, it's always this monumental struggle. I'm going to have to rip way back on this baby jacket I'm working on. The sleeves are supposed to be 6-1/2 inches at the wrist when the jacket is laid flat--remember I'm working from the bottom of the front, up over the shoulders and down the back, so you can lay it out flat before you sew it up (picture below); it would make half a sleeve 3-1/4 inches. Well, mine's 2-1/2. So I'm going to have to tear out the entire back, and all the way down both fronts to the start of the sleeves, and then decrease about 12 stitches--say 3 2-stitch decreases and 2 3-stitch decreases--to get a 3-1/4 inch half-sleeve.
(It's just a tiny bit darker pink than this, but not very much. It has blue and green and pink speckles in it, which give it kind of a tweedy look. It's all garter stitch.)
Sulk, pout.
Okay, so it would help if I would use the right yarn and knit to gauge so I didn't have to do so much figuring; it would all be there on paper for me. But where's the fun in that?
Maybe I'll set it aside for a while and work on something else until I get over my fit of pique. At least I'll be able to put both fronts on the needle at the same time, so they'll work up even. I wonder if I should plan to work the neck bigger. I wish they gave dimensions for it.
One good thing--one very good thing--is the weather is beautiful. The dogs and I are both very happy with the change in the weather.
2 comments:
OOOh. I HATE ripping out knitting! With crocheting, it's not so hard--only one loop and all, and all you have to do is re-crochet.
Hope you get that sweater to cooperate!
Apparently I'm still sulking--I spent last night playing Valhalla (old DOS RPG game) and getting my butt whipped--I think I died about 6 times. I've found out that if I shut the computer down when it says I've died, that I can pick up where I last saved the game when I start it back up. But I think I need help from Robbie or Eli--I don't have the right kind of thought processes to do well at these games! (Even though the graphics are very primitive, they might like the game--it actually has a number of quests to fulfill so that the Norse Gods can triumph at the Battle of the End of the World (Ragnarok). And it's HARD! At least, I think so. There's a lot more to it than just bashing opponents.)
Anyway, I'm gearing back up--I'll probably rip it out tonight, get the two fronts onto the needle, and wind the two skeins of yarn into balls so I don't have a hopeless tangle, and then settle in with the last half of The Civil War and start knitting Friday night and over the weekend.
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