Thursday night I finally cast on for the back, and the last key piece of the Whiskey sweater. I’m actully gung ho to get this done already. I made time every evening this weekend to work on it, cause who wants to go out at night is this weather? Not. Me.
As of Monday night I had 85 of 108 rows done on the first section of the back, the cable and lace part. I was really sailing along, having a good time getting it done. Then something occured to me. The waist shaping was coming on pretty regularly numbered rows. On 33, then 38, then 43, then 48, and so on. I remembered having to think about the row numbers a little more on the fronts. Indeed. I checked my pattern, I was supposed to work 5 rows, then work shaping. NOT work shaping every 5th row. I thought I might be able to get away with it, then I compared it with the fronts, no go. I was off about 2 inches on the shaping. Gah. So. I ripped.
I accept ripping as a part of knitting. Sometimes it all works out beautifully, and everything comes together the first time round. Sometimes you make a bonehead mistake too far down to fix, smack your palm to your forehead, sigh a big sigh, rip it out and move on. Thems the breaks, live and learn, it’s only water, spilt milk and all the rest of it. I accepted my error, sucked it up, and ripped.
The part that made me mad, made me want to spit and swear, (I couldn’t, I was at work) was that I ripped back to row 21. I only needed to rip to row 32.
*sigh*
D’oh!
Ripping super sucks, but you’re right, it will all be worth it in the end. What you have knit looks gorgeous!
I sympathize & empathize (is there another -ize?) – but it’s gorgeous yarn!
Gotta be philasophical about it all. But still, sometimes you just want to cry!
Awww… I hate to rip stuff… But the yarn is pretty!
I can totally empathize – still not “speaking” to a project I had to rip in December. I can see from your previous posts ‘tho, that this will be well worth it when you have it finished :).
Alas!!! But I’ve been there and done that so I can totally sympathize…
gah! i hate it when i rip too far 🙁 i feel your pain.
ooh, I can see why that made you mad! I just love the way that Whiskey knits up though, it looks great!
oh no – I hate ripping, but also tend to be a bit overzealous and rip too far….how frustrating!
NOOOOO!!! i hate to rip! i feel your pain
Ripping does suck, but not as much as finishing a sweater you’ll never wear. It had to be done, but still…ick.
gaaaaaaaaah! that would drive me nuts. good thing you were at work! wish i could knit at work…
ARGH. I’ve done stuff like this too, and oh, I feel your pain!
I hate frogging but sometimes drastic measures are needed. If my mistake is really bad I set it aside and come back later when I am not so upset; that way I won’t make any more errors trying to correct the problem that way.
Clearly you were having too much fun with the ripping! On the bright side, now you have lots of fun knitting ahead of you..
Oy, that really sucks.