Helpful …? – take II

/ MR

This is meant to make it easier to comprehend what I’m on about.

It might not help at all !!! [grin]

The news is BAD. I somehow or other managed to increase the number of stitches along the working edge before decreasing for the left sleeve. Which means, of course, that I lied when claiming that all edges were ‘even’ (but it wasn’t an intentional porky – only one that shows how far from top level I am).

The stitch I’ve been using doesn’t have a recognized name – meaning it’s insufficiently used to’ve gained one. I call it Strung Beads coz that’s sort of what it looks like; and I had laboured under the happy but foolish delusion that it’s one using which I can’t miscount … for, as with reading, my concentration lapses without my realizing it. But now, having been caught out and doing a recount, I find that occasional carelessness gave rise to a kind of double double on several occasions, leading to creeping but relentless incrementation.  😦

No point finishing. Either I’ll have a cardi with uneven-length sides below the sleeves, or I could frog back the second sleeve and made it wider than the other one. Being a perfectionist (which you will find surprising), even though

PERFECTION IS THE ENEMY OF GOOD

and having no idea where in the looong rows I increased, I’m stuffed. At least, this project is.

Lesson learned regarding cuff-to-cuff garments, from several points:

  1. use only stitches that cannot be in|decreased without its being seen at the time
  2. be prepared to become bored by the endlessness of it all
  3. remember that it’ll become pretty fucking infuriating having to keep turning a bloody hefty THING all the time, and it’ll sweep things off your side-table as you do
  4. it’ll get extremely heavy as well as large !

So, as the wonderful Robert Graves wrote, goodbye to all that.

 

17 thoughts on “Helpful …? – take II”

  2. How frustrating for you! I want to tell you that I have the same problem with keeping track of the count in my knitting. My projects are small! I knit chemo caps for a non-profit and you could practically knit them in your sleep. But if I don’t concentrate like crazy I lose my count. This never happened when I was younger. LOL! Think about how many things you could apply that sentence to! But your stitch is beautiful and I think I’d find a way to fold all the flaps and make a really beautiful large purse or shopping bag! It’s too pretty to not finish into something. 😉

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  3. Darlin Deb, the frustration is in the fact of … of ME. I frustrate myself by being insufficiently on the qui vive, and in lax fashion allowing mistakes like this to happen. If my brain were firing on half as many … thingies as it used to (synapses ? – whatever !), I would occasionally take the trouble to, like, CHECK.

    I am entirely blameworthy.

    I shall frog it, and use the whole lot again. BETTER.

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    • I’d love to know the name of this pattern please. I love how the stitch looks. What a shame that you won’t be finishing this cardigan. It’s lovely.

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      • No pattern, Anonymous – I just make jumpers and cardis out of my head, now. Unhappily, I’m not madly creative; so I have to rely on the stitches I use (and the yarns, of course) for variety.

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  6. So, is this a “start over,” M-R? From one perfectionist to another, I understand the frustration and that is probably why I stopped trying to knit or crochet years ago. My mom was good at knitting and I still have her blue afghan throw that keeps me warm on the currently cold winter evenings.

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  7. I can’t believe you’re abandoning your project. I love the stitch pattern you used. Is there a pattern you could share the link to, or can you tell me what the stitch is? I’m making a large tote and this looks like it would be a good choice for one section of my project. Thank you 😊

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Go on - you can say it. :)