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Sep. 28th, 2007
major knitting mistake
Sep. 28th, 2007 02:38 pmI just discovered a major mistake near the beginning of the project I've been working on. This project. I'm not talking about a pattern error. I'm talking about, I screwed this up bigtime. The beginning of the mistake was 50 rows ago, when I was working on the project years back, before I picked up it again.
Yes, it does matter. Not in the sense of being able to see it, I don't think that anyone but me could tell by looking, but the whole pattern is based on the rows that I knitted wrong. So, it's not wrong fifty rows ago and then right for the subsequent 49, it's wrong for 50 rows. Weh.
At this point, I have three basic choices:
1) Frog pond. I could unravel the project, yes the whole project, and start over.
2) Try to fix it. I could - maybe - MAYBE - fix just the affected sections. I'm not at all sure of this and it might make things worse. It also might take longer and would definitely be more annoying while, going on, than reknitting.
3) Try to find a workaround. Try to find a way to get from the pattern being wrong to the pattern being right. Normally this is what I would do, but I've never made lace before.
To these three choices,![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
7j added the suggestion that I could take it to a knitting store and beg for help. (Most places have some sort of "knitting doctor" thing where you pay by the hour and they bail you out of your messes.) syprina also added the idea that I could start the pattern again with a different skein of yarn, and use the old piece for something else because it's pretty. This is a good idea, from my perspective, because it's non-final. I can start again and go, "My god! I'll die if I try to reknit this all!" and then try to do something with the piece I already have, instead.
I knew that when I picked this project up and it was going so well, it was too good to be true. Argh!!
Yes, it does matter. Not in the sense of being able to see it, I don't think that anyone but me could tell by looking, but the whole pattern is based on the rows that I knitted wrong. So, it's not wrong fifty rows ago and then right for the subsequent 49, it's wrong for 50 rows. Weh.
At this point, I have three basic choices:
1) Frog pond. I could unravel the project, yes the whole project, and start over.
2) Try to fix it. I could - maybe - MAYBE - fix just the affected sections. I'm not at all sure of this and it might make things worse. It also might take longer and would definitely be more annoying while, going on, than reknitting.
3) Try to find a workaround. Try to find a way to get from the pattern being wrong to the pattern being right. Normally this is what I would do, but I've never made lace before.
To these three choices,
7j added the suggestion that I could take it to a knitting store and beg for help. (Most places have some sort of "knitting doctor" thing where you pay by the hour and they bail you out of your messes.) syprina also added the idea that I could start the pattern again with a different skein of yarn, and use the old piece for something else because it's pretty. This is a good idea, from my perspective, because it's non-final. I can start again and go, "My god! I'll die if I try to reknit this all!" and then try to do something with the piece I already have, instead. I knew that when I picked this project up and it was going so well, it was too good to be true. Argh!!