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| From Interweave magazine/Winter 2014 |
I have started working on this State Fair sweater for my older daughter. (Shh...) I decided to knit a sleeve first so that I could use it as a gauge swatch. Good plan, right?
Right. Except that I forgot about using it to check my gauge until I measured to begin the bind offs for the armhole portion and then it was TOO LATE. My gauge is too large, and the sleeve so far is 3" longer than it should be. The cuff is cabled, and gaw-jus, if I say so myself, and I do, so just folding the cuff back is not a good solution to the problem, and really, a bespoke sweater should actually fit!
So now I have to rip back to the cuff and start again, making the increases closer together. It will work out ok (as long as I make both sleeves according to the new rate of increase) so I guess I don't mind.
I just wish I had remembered to measure way sooner....
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Robbie Burns said it best:
The best laid plans of mice and men gang aft agly.
It'll all work out. Double the knitting pleasure out of that bit of yarn.
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