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Showing posts with label ripping. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ripping. Show all posts

Thursday, February 18, 2010

Rip back and think of GB

I finally sucked it up and ripped out the original, over-sized EZ hybrid sweater whilst watching the women's curling (GB vs. Russia) this evening. I'm down to the last ball of new yarn for the reknit and I knew there was a chance I'd have to reskein, soak, and hang the ripped out yarn and I didn't want to run out of yarn before it was dry.



Thanks to the ball winder and the fact that it was a seamless sweater the whole process was fairly painless. Physically painless, that is. I'm sure I'll bear the emotional scars for years to come. No, I'm kidding. There was an initial wrench as I picked out the darned-in end of the neck band but really I'm so far along on the new sweater that I don't mind too much.

yarn doughnut

I was right about having to reskein and soak this stuff though. Check out the sproinginess. It would be like trying to knit with phone cable.

sproingy

I'll post an update on my Knitting Olympics project tomorrow.

Thursday, September 24, 2009

Oh shoot

I'm sorry I didn't bring my camera into work today as it means I don't have a good picture of the 1 1/2 inches of colourwork which I painstakingly knit last night and heart-achingly ripped out this lunchtime (long story short I M1, K1, M1, K1, M1, K2'd 30 times instead of M1, K1, M1, K2ing 40 times). I am now trying to look for the positives in this.

Ripping out means more knitting - I like knitting so this is a good thing (I'm trying hard to follow Anne's example and be win-win about this).
I wasn't really loving the length of the circular needle that I was using and I suspect that this was messing with my tension - I can switch to a different length needle and it will be better (and hopefully not quite so hurty in the wrists).
When I ventured out to the LYS in search of this better length needle I discovered I already have one (actually two) at home - I spent the money saved on a spinach and feta thingy and a Rachel's Organic rice pudding (nom nom) from the deli next door.
I am in very good company.
I will have fewer stitches (8 per row) to knit this time around.
I will be over it as soon as I've reached the place I got to this morning, before it all went dark.

Had better start knitting then.