Lace success…maybe.

So, I needed a new small project to take with me this past weekend and decided that I was ready to tackle the Vogue stockings again.  I’ve got a little more lace experience under my belt now, and had gained a new strategy for dealing with those pesky k3togs.  (The Zarabel sweater pattern has you sl 1, k2tog, psso.  Much easier to manage and faster to knit, at least for me.)

I’ve managed to get all the way to the heel flap without any major incidents.  (Two minor ones where I forgot a YO, but those were easily fixed on the next row, at least to my satisfaction.)  Then, I realized that I’d started the gusset increases on the wrong row, which meant that I was one increase short, but I decided to go on anyway and just fix that issue as I went.  What a pain in the bum that decision has been ever since.  Someone remind me never to mess with a lace pattern, at least, not until I get a bit better at this.

The only really noticeable error is that the flowers that start up the back at the heel are a little off, as in the bottom one starts about three stitches to the left of the one right above it.  Now, if this were simply a matter of ripping back, I’d be at it in a heartbeat, but in this case, ripping back means trying to pick up stitches in a lace pattern.  No way.  Not going to happen.  I’d try it, it would get messed up, and I’d end up pulling the whole sock apart.  Starting over at this point in my progress would be heartbreaking and would probably put an end to my attempts.

So, my only other option is to live with it.  It’s not likely that I would wear these with sandals, and no one would probably notice even if I did.  Hopefully, this is the end of my issues with these stockings, because I still have quite a ways to go just to finish the first one.  I also hope that once I get a little further in the pattern, these little mistakes won’t stand out so much.

May 3, 2010  Tags:   Posted in: Knitting

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