So I’m working on Interweave Knits spring 07 slanted neck pullover.
And thus far:
There you go. A good reason to make sure that if you start a project with many pieces, you try and finish ASAP. Because if things happen in between pieces that cause stress, it might manifest in a tightening of your gauge. Tight enough to cause the piece to be about an inch or so smaller.
And so I started to frog. Sad. I was thinking of Going Back To Square One but now I wonder, should I start from scratch and try this in the round instead? Maybe I’ll just go up a needle size. Either way, lots of “ribbit!”
I always prefer to work stuff in the round, but it’s be a shame for all that work to go to waste! I would try going a needle size down, but if that doesn’t work, I suppose you could just redo it all in the round. No seaming would probably make up for having to redo so much of it! Good luck
Yep, new piece smaller. It got frogged to the point where I picked up the hem and conscientiously loosened up a bit with the tension from the ball of yarn. That seems to have helped a lot! Now my hands “feel” right, if you know what I mean, and it’s much looser on the needles.
Heh. I guess moving can be stressful and even knitting can get affected quite a bit.
Side note: Lamb’s pride cotton fleece is very nice to work with. Very forgiving of frogging. I hope I have enough left over for a short-sleeved shirt.
Same thing happened to me, only for me, the second piece was bigger. 4 inches bigger. And I was not smart like you, I did not measure it after I knit a few inches. I measured it after I bound off!! Duh. I am going to rip it out and knit it in the round to the armholes, then divide. That is, when I can muster up the strength. It’s been sitting in the to be frogged pile for months now.
Well, after frogging, the hands remembered what they were supposed to do.
I knit continental (easier since I learned crochet first) and the habit I had when I first learned is to tug the yarn and make it taught as I’m picking at it with the needle. When I started the back portion, I was doing what i was supposed to do and leave the yarn loose, not tugging at all. The yarn is just around the index finger to keep feeding it as I work. I managed to get it right with the back piece. But with the second, I was pulling taught again because I was knitting on the go (dunno why I do that when I’m on the road).
So far so good. I’ve got about 3 inches done again and we’re super close or at least it can be fudged with minimal blocking.
