Project Bodemloos: Drop it all the way!
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janestarzHope you're not getting tired of these updates yet, because I'm knitting full speed ahead! Tonight I just finished the second skein, making me officially 20% there. Possibly even more, since I doubt I'll really need all 10 skeins.
However, I hit a snag a couple of days ago, which warrented a few pictures under the fluorescent lighting of my kitchen, the best possible place to make pictures at night. I've done some crude editing to make it even more abundantly clear what the problem is.
Because honestly, I can make a fuss of things at times. Ahem.
After finishing the first rows under the arm, the pattern instructs to increase every 10th round at the "side seam" markers. But after the first increase I realised I thought the KFB (knit-front-and-back) increases I found so pretty on the raglan sleeve, are really quite out of place under the arm. You can see in the left picture what I mean.
The KFB distorts the stitches around it, and because there are two KFB stitches next to each other, there's a pretty big area that is warped. I hated the look of it, so as soon as I hit the second round of increases, I decided to drop the stitches right next to my marker all the way down to where I first increased and created it (that very stitch), and change the KFB to a M1 increase.
Click to make it larger.
In the picture on the right you can clearly see the difference*). The needle point is showing towards the KFB, which still shows a little purl bump on the right side of the fabric. If you direct your gaze from that purl bump two stitches to the right, you'll see a neat stitch -- it really looks like half a v to me -- that is the M1 increase. I just lifted the loop between 2 stitches on the 9th row, to increase by one stitch in the 10th.
(I should clarify that it's an M1L or an M1R, but I really can't tell them apart. I just tried both until I found which one looked better on which side of the marker. I can't identify them, but I know how to knit them.)
And then I proceeded to re-knit the dropped stitch all the way up the ladder, slide marker, and do the exact same thing on the other side of the marker as well.
It wasn't really hard, I've done half-sock-surgeries like these before, but it really does take a good deal of patience and knowledge of the knit fabric and how the stitches twist to do it right, and possibly a third needle because if you pull either one of your working needles you're bound to drop a few that you didn't mean to drop. And after doing the first one perfectly, the second one was a little more fiddly, then I realised the two should be twisted the other way around (making an M1R of the M1L and vice versa), and then the third one made me wonder if I picked up the loop from the 9th row or from the 10th row, and after picking up the entire ladder I had to drop everything and pick up one row lower than I did and....it was a bit of difficulty in the end, but at least I knew exactly what I was doing...just not always the how and where of it.
I'm very glad I did, though. I think the fabric looks a good deal smoother now than with the KFB stitches under the arm. But then, who knows what it will look like after blocking!? (Ugh, that makes everything sound just so pointless.)
Pretty sweater! With pretty increases! Two skeins in a week, I should have this done before Sock Madness starts in March!
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*) Okay. Yes, I do realise that I am probably the only one who sees what I'm talking about. But at least I tried. Look, I drew white arrows pointing RIGHT AT IT! It's RIGHT THERE!
However, I hit a snag a couple of days ago, which warrented a few pictures under the fluorescent lighting of my kitchen, the best possible place to make pictures at night. I've done some crude editing to make it even more abundantly clear what the problem is.
Because honestly, I can make a fuss of things at times. Ahem.
After finishing the first rows under the arm, the pattern instructs to increase every 10th round at the "side seam" markers. But after the first increase I realised I thought the KFB (knit-front-and-back) increases I found so pretty on the raglan sleeve, are really quite out of place under the arm. You can see in the left picture what I mean.
The KFB distorts the stitches around it, and because there are two KFB stitches next to each other, there's a pretty big area that is warped. I hated the look of it, so as soon as I hit the second round of increases, I decided to drop the stitches right next to my marker all the way down to where I first increased and created it (that very stitch), and change the KFB to a M1 increase.
Click to make it larger.
In the picture on the right you can clearly see the difference*). The needle point is showing towards the KFB, which still shows a little purl bump on the right side of the fabric. If you direct your gaze from that purl bump two stitches to the right, you'll see a neat stitch -- it really looks like half a v to me -- that is the M1 increase. I just lifted the loop between 2 stitches on the 9th row, to increase by one stitch in the 10th.
(I should clarify that it's an M1L or an M1R, but I really can't tell them apart. I just tried both until I found which one looked better on which side of the marker. I can't identify them, but I know how to knit them.)
And then I proceeded to re-knit the dropped stitch all the way up the ladder, slide marker, and do the exact same thing on the other side of the marker as well.
It wasn't really hard, I've done half-sock-surgeries like these before, but it really does take a good deal of patience and knowledge of the knit fabric and how the stitches twist to do it right, and possibly a third needle because if you pull either one of your working needles you're bound to drop a few that you didn't mean to drop. And after doing the first one perfectly, the second one was a little more fiddly, then I realised the two should be twisted the other way around (making an M1R of the M1L and vice versa), and then the third one made me wonder if I picked up the loop from the 9th row or from the 10th row, and after picking up the entire ladder I had to drop everything and pick up one row lower than I did and....it was a bit of difficulty in the end, but at least I knew exactly what I was doing...just not always the how and where of it.
I'm very glad I did, though. I think the fabric looks a good deal smoother now than with the KFB stitches under the arm. But then, who knows what it will look like after blocking!? (Ugh, that makes everything sound just so pointless.)
Pretty sweater! With pretty increases! Two skeins in a week, I should have this done before Sock Madness starts in March!
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*) Okay. Yes, I do realise that I am probably the only one who sees what I'm talking about. But at least I tried. Look, I drew white arrows pointing RIGHT AT IT! It's RIGHT THERE!
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