This sweater in progress is for Katrina for Christmas. It’s using up the end of some yarn that has been in my stash forever. Actually, this is the yarn I bought to learn to knit. It’s a tomten sweater by Elizabeth Zimmerman. The whole thing is knit in garter stitch and the only seams are on the underarms. These are good things. I cannot count, apparently, though and this is a bad thing.
After splitting for those gigantic armholes you are supposed to knit 28 ridges on each front and the back. In the real world that means 56 rows — 2 rows for each ridge — but it turns out that while knitting this sweater I was not residing in the real world. In that parrallel universe 28 ridges equals 46 rows. So that’s what I knit before I joined all the pieces to knit the hood. Well, sort of. On one of the fronts I returned to reality and knit 56 rows and this is where I need some help. I did not realize my error until I knit the entire hood and went to pick up the stitches for the sleeves.
Now if I had been consistent in my error I would be better off. I don’t want to rip back all the way and there isn’t enough red yarn anyway. So what I’m thinking to do is cut the yarn on the longer front, rip out 10 rows, and graft it back together. The problem is that I have no idea how to do this. Help?!?!?!?!?!?
Well, you KNOW I can’t help you with this, but I can wish you good luck and commiserate with your frustration.
Uh, yeah. Huh? When did you learn to speak Greek?
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wouldn’t it be easier to pick up the stitches on the shorter side and just zip out a couple more rows?
How about a nice after-market trim sewn around the bottom?
ummm. i knit, but I’m no help on this one!!
sounds like something I would have done too….
What you want is Kitchener stitch, aka grafting. There’s a great video for this in the tips section of the KnittingHelp website. Look at http://www.knittinghelp.com/videos/knitting-tips.
(Here via your comment in the YH blog. I just tried this to finish some socks a few weeks ago. Good luck!)
this is adorable…being a beginner here, i wish i could help, but i can not. i just want to send some words of encouragement your way! it looks great, can’t wait to see how you make out!
oh, i get what you are saying, but i have no idea how to tell you to do it. i am going to think on it and see if i can come up with something.