remember my broadcast sweater? i cast on for it in november of 2011, and made quite good progress on the torso, until i tried it on and it was too big.
since then, it’s languished. quietly. in a large pile with a bunch of other hibernating knits that bring on spasms of guilt when i look at/contemplate them. once or twice a year i’ll get the urge to finish one of them and then feel extra good about myself. i did actually bring it on my trip to england, at your suggestion, but i got less knitting done than i ever could have guessed on that trip, and it was all ‘mindless cowl knitting’, not ‘have to pay attention to row number and stitch count’ sweater knitting.
but i decided to work on it now, as i have a little time between projects. i have some yarn coming in the mail to start swatching for a semi-large-ish project (stockings, hopefully to be done in time for christmas 2013), and several hats that i will need to start on soon, but for the moment, i wanted to actually make progress on something i’d already started.
see that little dark stripe at the top above? i bought a fourth skein completely separate from the other three (and i just bought a fifth), and even though they looked similar in the skein, of course it was just a little different. which i knew would drive me bonkers in a finished knit. so i tore back to the end of the last skein, and i’m now alternating between the two skeins to minimize any color shifts.
i’m working my way up the second sleeve right now. i think i’m going to modify the neckline to a lowish scoopneck, as opposed to the tall boatneck called for in the original.
and that’s all the news that’s fit to print on this slow news day!
psst- julie over at knitted bliss featured me for her modification monday this week! scoot on over and take a peek!
I feel your pain. I started a new sweater this past Saturday and I was just blazing through it. I started getting worried it was going to be to big but I thought about that with the last sweater I made and it turned out fine. A little bit bigger than I would have liked, but I still love it. This one though, it fits fine, but it is way to big for my taste so I’m ripping it out clear up to the arm pits tonight.
i’m so sorry! ripping back a long ways is the worst! it feels so defeating! i never actually ripped back to make this one smaller, just back so that it wouldn’t have an obvious stripe where the skeins changed…
Ooh, I totally missed that feature! I’m totally checking that out after this. About the pullover, did you making it smaller after frogging? I’m also planning to knit wool stockings for the next winter… That’s as far as I got in the planning: the yarn and the idea. Have you any pattern in mind?
i didn’t make it smaller…. i decided i didn’t mind it a bit larger. i’m still a little worried i’ll regret it, but i’m kind of in a ‘power through’ frame of mind, so i’m just hoping i’ll like the way it fits? i can’t quite tell if i’m being naive or not…. i just plain haven’t made enough sweaters to know how i like things to be…
Slouchy sweaters are super comfy anyway.
I do intend to knit one, one day.
oh, and the stockings i’m knitting will be some christmas stockings for some friends. i’m using this pattern: http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/a-new-family-portrait—a-collection-of-three-christmas-stockings (the dad and mom ones). i think they are gonna turn out awesome!
Oops, I was thinking of another kind of stockings. (Tights is probably a better word)
oh, so frustrating! And you just know that it’ll get loads of wear once it’s done, but when it’s plagued with troubles it’s hard to keep going. But it does feel very satisfying to finish a knit that has long been languishing in the WIP pile.
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