This is how crumply lace looks like. I wonder how others manage their artistic shots.
I should have been happy but I wasn't. When I got home, I tried it on and found it a tad too small for my liking. So what does a gal have to do? Rip back and add more rounds, of course!
I am not sure which is more cruel:
Ripping out a shawl with its ending round of 400+ stitches and back out almost by 10 rows?
(By the last few rounds, I was knitting each round of 400+sts for about 25 mins so that's like 5hrs lost?)
Or touching the finish line to be cried *foul* and sent back for re-run?
(Or be grateful that I am given the chance to learn more about charting increase round repeats?)
1. KIP = knitting in public
4 comments:
Oh it's painful to frog all those sts! And with lace it's so hard to put the sts back... Hope you get your desired size this time!
I try to remember when ripping a bezillion stitches that it's better to rip now than to be disatisfied later. You're really zooming along on this one--looking forward to seeing the FO.
oh man! tough decision! i was left with a a dilema like that with birch, luckily i was in the postion just to say a prayer and cast off... birch turned out to be a really pretty scarf intead of a full length shawl! i love the color you are using... very ey catching.. what ever you decide it will be beautiful!
You are the first knitter I know from Singapore! Hi!
Ripping lace and picking stitches afterwards must be one of the most difficult tasks in knitting. But very little is as rewarding as knitting lace...
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