Of the three projects I posted about last time, I decided the London Pride would be the most painful to fix. And I'm in a masochistic mood these days, so I've been slowly but surely unravelling stitches from it. By my calculations I am just over halfway done with that. Then I'll have to work on a round and make sure all the stitches I dropped and picked up were done correctly. This is going to be a slow painful process. I tried to take pictures of it, so at least I could demonstrate my technique, but alas, just dropping stitches and keeping track of yarnovers and K2tog and all that lacy goodness should take three hands, but I'm juggling around with only two hands and three needles. At least I'm starting to get the hang of it. Sigh. Here are some pictures of the before and after.
A closeup of the mistake. The dpn is pointing at a bunch of stitches that were increased incorrectly.
The fix. This repeat has been ripped back, and that clump is gone. I don't know if you can see it, but the tip of the flower has been ripped back too.
And here's all the yarn from the ripping so far:
As for the blog dying, apparently that was just a rumor. The server is alive and kicking (albeit a bit slow and old), but if the blog appears down for a few hours, the cause is SPAMMERS. Ugh. To lessen some of the bandwidth on the server, I'l be useing Flickr for images from now on.
In happy future news, I am getting really excited about Stitches West! K and I will spend a bit of time at the Lacy Knitters Guild booth, which is part of why I want to fix London Pride so badly so I can have some legitimate lace to knit while there. I can't wait to see Gene and Lew again! I won't be taking any classes unfortunately, but I am preparing to buy some yarn and chat with the boys.
I feel your pain. Well, at least it isn't mohair. On a happier note, I think it's really cool how many knitters are knitting your patterns. I still have Pomatomus in my sights, but they may have to wait until after SW. All hail the never ending parade of projects.
Posted by: Janice at January 13, 2006 2:58 PMI know how painful frogging even 1000 stitches in lace is - last doily I did about two dozen double-decreases where k3s should have been - repeated the same error all the way around... not something contained to just a small section.
Is there a particular reason why you opted to pull out all the rounds rather than dropping down just the errant dozen? Is it the yarn too delicate or not stretchy enough or something? Or is the inevitable slight bit of wonkiness that would result something that you'd go that far to avoid?
Oh my goodness; I TOTALLY feel your pain when I see all the ripping you had to do! But I agree: Better to rip out a mistake that will nag at you every time you see it instead of pretending (or trying to) it's not there. The lace is gorgeous, by the way.
Posted by: Becky at January 17, 2006 9:38 AMC - if there were any doubt left that you are an internet knitting supahstah, let that doubt be forever quelched. Someone (Allison) is knitting your Knitty socks for the Yarn Harlot Knitting Olympics! Woot! :)
Posted by: julia at January 17, 2006 3:21 PM