Un-knitting

So, I’ve been making fantastic progress on my Zarabel sweater.  See..

And then, I realized that I had done the decreases on the front stockinette sections wrong so that the lace panels on the sides were sloping towards the neckline instead of the ones closer to the center sloping towards the sides.  BIG difference to the overall look of the sweater, and NOT a mistake I could just live with.

So, I’ve spent the past several nights undoing about twelve rows of knitting.  I decided to take the slow route and unknit rather than just take the needles out and hope I could pick all those stitches back up without losing any or messing up the lace panels.

It has taken a while, but I’m finally ready to move forward again.  I’m going to have to reread the directions and figure out where I went wrong.  I have a feeling that it was because the instructions mention the right and then left side panels, so I assumed they were talking about the right and left relative to me facing the work, since that is the order I would encounter them in.  Instead, I think they mean the right and left side as worn, which would mean that I need to reverse the order of the instructions.  Again, I may have just misread and may discover that they are perfectly clear now that I know what NOT to do.

May 10, 2010  Tags:   Posted in: Knitting

One Response

  1. Casey - June 12, 2010

    Congratulations on being patient enough to un-knit all of those rows! I am working on a sweater right now that I wish I would have un-knit a few rows instead of just marching onward. I got about twelve inches of knitting done and then had to rip it all out and start over because I refused to correct a mistake in the first four inches.

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