A picture, or three, paints a thousand words. But I've never been one to just let the pictures talk...
Note where the cables end on the sleeves... they are supposed to be at the neckline, or near enough to it.
Note the length of the sleeves; a gorilla could get into these.
Note the hem, then note the neckline. Hem is considerably smaller than the neckline. Hem will just go around my hips... neckline is so large I can wear it draped down around my elbows WITHOUT stretching it AT ALL.
Then, for the final insult; note the hood... which is pointed..... like a pixie's... or perhaps that cape the Scottish Widows advert woman used to wear (only much, much less cool). I think I've seen hoods like that on Doctor Who creatures too.
Not shown in the photograph is the fact that if I put the hood up, its so large, it goes over my eyes and I can't see out, and the hood is so wide I could host a party in there.
It is supposed to have a zip up the front, but its not been put in yet (and probably never will be).
It took me four months to knit this and the sleeves were the most difficult pattern I've ever attempted. Can anyone see any possible way I can rescue this........ other than the rather obvious (and most likely one) pull it out and knit something different?
4 comments:
Oh no!!!
The sleeves are lovely, but yes its like a neckband is missing from the neck area or something.
Can't knit so no real ideas on saving it.
How disappointing, and sorry no ideas as I'm only just getting back into knitting.
You have to think about this carefully, but it is possible to pull a thread across the knitting, pick up and knit from there. So if the sleeves are too long and you want 2" cuff, you determine where you want the sleeve to end, then pull a thread 2" above that point. Pick up the stitches and knit the cuff from the sleeve down.
Don't think I can help with party, pixie hood. But it often happens that as you find one solution and execute it, others will suggest themselves.
oopsies.
Apart from the suggestion to pick up stitches part way through the pieces, which might work, but would be very challenging, the only advice I can offer applies to future knits
Flat pattern measuring techniques also apply to knitting. Goes without saying you should check your tension before you start - boring, but necessary.
As soon as the piece you are knitting is long enough not to be distorted by the needle it's on, you should smooth it flat, pinning the edges into a soft surface, and measure it to see if it is going to come out as the tension square indicated.
There can be issues with cables and top shaping - you need a certain number of stitches to cable and when you lose just 1 of them, in a raglan for example, you can get a big plain bit. A well written pattern should account for that and ensure that the point in the repeat that you start your shaping isn't too awful. This is one of the reasons adjusting for length on your own doesn't always work out.
It looks beautifully knitted and well done for following such a challenging cable (chart?) pattern. You might just have to chalk this one up to experience!
The other check you can run on a pattern is the maths bit - using your tension gauge (go by cm it's easier) if the given tension is 28stitches to 10 cm that equals 2.8 stitches per 1cm. Now going through the pattern at each point where they tell you how many stitches you will have after a shaping instruction has been completed - divide that number of sts by 2.8 and this will tell you how many cms wide the piece will be at that point.
so if there is an error in the pattern and your half neck (back) or quarter neck (front) measure comes out at bigger than the hip... you'd see it coming. Else it might be down to operator error - ask me how I know. Don't count stitches when you are so tired your eyes cross :D
Sorry for the disppointing result, I feel your pain.
So ripping of some sort or just rock the pixie look ;-)
Cheers,
AJ
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