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Posted: Wednesday, June 11, 2008 by Laura
Filed under On The Needles
Now it's frogged!
The major WIP at the moment is the Bold & Bulky Mini Cardi that needs to be finished by next weekend. I dedicated the whole of Sunday to this beauty and completed the entire body section. Woop Woop!
The great thing about knitting from the yoke down is that you can try it on as you go. In theory you can test it for size as you work, well this is what I thought I was doing!
I got to the stage where all that needed to be done was work the sleeves and the neckline border and thought that it was a good time to have a quick size check – and also show off a little (read: a lot!!) that I had achieved so much in an afternoon.
It was then that I was struck with some kind of knitting karma! The pesky thing wouldn’t meet up around the front. Seriously no amount of button band was going to make these two edges meet – such a cruel injustice!
So I thought I was being smart and substituting the yarn in the pattern for the scrummy Mirasol Sulka that I got for my birthday, but i should have checked the tension fully. I knew that it was a lighter weight yarn than was recommended but did some maths (clearly a wonky variety) and decided it would all be good.
Did it really not dawn on me that it would be quicker to knit a tension square than to make the entire thing to find out the gauge?!
Now it’s been frogged and I have started again, this time I’m making a size bigger to accommodate the substituted yarn. Fingers (and toes crossed) ‘cos I still didn’t work up a tension square!!
The moral of this story…
Don’t get too smug about knitty achievements because it can unravel all too easily!!
Peeps comments
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maureenh 06/11 at 07:08 PM
Hope you’re continuing to make progress with this after last night! Good luck and may it be ready in time.
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suse 06/11 at 08:25 PM
that’s a shame cos the back looks good!
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Bunny 06/13 at 11:23 AM
tension tension tension !!! what is so hard re tension squares .Chrissie
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Bunny 06/13 at 11:23 AM
tension tension tension !!! what is so hard re tension squares .Chrissie
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Kate 06/13 at 04:50 PM
OK, I have serious knitting project envy now. I’m so going home to rummage through all my knitty books and find some kind of shrug pattern to have a bash at this weekend
Looks great though, love the colour and style....
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jackjake 06/14 at 07:58 PM
hope you finish.i never do tension squares and i have had a lotof mis-sized items so i am going to start being organised and doit proper good luck
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KnittingOma 06/16 at 11:36 AM
The back looks great from the picture so I hope you have it all worked out now....it looks a lovely little top.
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bagqueen 06/20 at 10:07 PM
hi, I would have done the same, I hate doing tension squares nd always think I can judge it after I’ve knitted a bit but usually by the time I realise its no good I’ve wasted far more time than it would take me to do the tension square!! I’ve been knitting 45 years,[ I started very very young almost in my cradle!!! ] but I’ve still not learnt that one!!!!
Love bagqueen x
ps I hope you get it done for the weekend, have fun at the wedding, enjoy swoooshin the frock!!!
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