Saturday, April 29th, 2006
The knitting police may come get me soon. My crime? I did a pair of decreases on the wrong row. If you want to get technical about it, I did all of them on the wrong row. The pattern calls for you to start decreasing on a row that would mean you’d be doing them on the purl part of the row. I’m not a big fan of purl decreases, so I waited until the next row. Really, one row isn’t going to make any noticable difference so I did it my way. I’m knitting happily along after the next set of decreases and realize that I didn’t do a pair of decreases on the previous row. There was a part of me that wanted to rip out 350+ stitches and fix it, but I didn’t. I did them on the row I was on. I dare anyone to notice. This can’t become a habit though.
This is what she looks like so far. Look how much yarn there still is in that ball.
IF I were ever to do this again, there’s one change I’d make. I’m still considering making the change on the sleeves. I’m not sure which will drive me crazier, the holes or the leaves not matching the ones on the bottom of the jacket. Here she is pinned out so you can see
See the little leaf motifs in the middle? Of course you do. Now see the two holes above the top leaf? Those are annoying me. The row AFTER those two holes are made is the row I should start the decreases on. If I hadn’t been blindly following along and had realized how it would look, I think I would have not done those two yarnovers and counted it as the first decrease row. Make sense? As it stands now, I am NOT ripping back and doing it over. Most people probably wouldn’t even notice.
