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January 28, 2006
Misery Week 4
Misery is living up to its name. Last week I gave my sweater a little shota steam before photographing it for blog. Since I took the picture I have been walking past it and pausing to look but not knowing why or what I was looking *for* Something was off but I had no clue what exactly was the problem. I wrote it off to beautimous intarsia design and big headed admiration. But then it hit me~ the sweater was wider towards the needle than it was towards the hem. Ah the hem was done on smaller needles and the stitches on needle were not compressed by a row of sts above them no big. Finally, unable to quiet the nagging voice in head, I pulled out my tape measure. 23sts/4" as required near hem. 20 sts/4" midpoint. So this week I have been cogitating on gauge and how to deal with this sweater. True misery. Next week we shall go for negative progress and rip.
yarny day and knitterly evenings to all.
Posted by Elka at 08:15 PM