Mon - February 7, 2005

Bad bunny! Bad!


It looks like Bunnicula got into the ramen noodles...



Posted at: 08:39 PM     |

Thu - June 10, 2004

Nope.


Well, I tried unpicking it from the side, but that didn't work; I hit an eyelet and lost the stitches. Aven, I thought about your idea, but the Svale I'm using splits so easily and is so slippery that I didn't think it would work to cut, recross, and then have the ends to deal with.

So I've been ripping it. Ripping it did, at least, free up my #3 needle (which turns out to be my only #3 needle other than dps), so I did the ribbing for my Eyelet Cardi and am starting on the Chickami known as Siren.

I'd take a picture, but I haven't ripped it out all the way. It's sitting on the living room floor with at least one cable repeat more to be ripped (I've already pulled out two full balls of yarn from it). I keep telling myself that I don't want to rip it back until I've finished using the #3 and can put it back on, but I think I just don't want to finish ripping out a semester's work.

Posted at: 09:44 PM     |

Tue - June 8, 2004

Hubris


Last night, when Jamaica was still spread out on the floor, I was looking at it. I'd ripped back a repeat and a half on the back earlier because I'd gotten the register of eyelets slightly off. I remember thinking very smugly to myself that it looked really good.

Then I (insert scary music here) saw this:


That's a twist in the wrong direction on twisted border next to the fourth out of six and a half of the cable pattern repeats.

So, the way I see it, I have three options.

1. Live with it.
I don't think I can do this. First of all, this is right in the middle of the front of the sweater. Every time I wear it, I'll see this and cringe. Second of all, I got the pattern book and yarn for this sweater last year with the money that I'd gotten from substitute teaching in the Crisis Room at my old high school. (That was my second day ever of substitute teaching. I got my first death threat ever that day, and that from an individual who did seem as if he might be interested in making an attempt. I decided to take the money and make it into something nice.) Third of all, I had hoped to enter this into the State Fair.

2. I told Caleb about this, and he said 'So you'll have to rip it back all the way?
This may be the best choice. I really don't want to do this, though; that's about half of my progress so far. Still, if I have to do this, I have to do this.

3. It appears that this is within a row or two of where I joined in a new piece of yarn. I could carefully unravel to where the mistake is, carefully undo and redo it, and then graft my way back across the piece.
This, however, would require mad grafting skeelz that I don't think I possess. Any mistakes would show horribly. On the other hand, if it doesn't work, I just have to unravel the sweater back to the mistake, which is where I'd be if I'd taken the second option anyway. I think that this may be the way to go.

Or is there another way to go? I'm open to suggestions.

Posted at: 11:12 AM     |

Mon - June 7, 2004

More progress


Here's Jamaica:




I need to finish the back panel, do the neck shaping, and do the fronts with their shaping. Then I get to start on the sleeves.

I'm hoping to finish this by the end of the month.

Posted at: 09:41 PM     |

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