Thursday, September 15, 2005
Minus Ten

The bad news: I ripped out 10 rounds of Rosy. When you have between 400 and 500 stitches on each round, that's a lot of ripping.

The good news: When I took it off the needle I laid it out and got a picture. So when I once again have acess to my ISP's server you will get to see a picture that doesn't look like a misshapen mess.

The reason for the rip-fest? Chalk it up to Anne thinking she knows more than the designer. Sometimes I'm right. This time I wasn't.

Rosy has pattern bands separated by "spacer ridges". Up until this point the spacer ridges have consisted of 4 rows - knit one round, purl 2 rounds, knit one round. The rows immediately before and after the spacer ridges were always patterned rounds.

In the case of the ridge between charts 4 and 5, the last row of chart 4 was plain knit. The directions then called to "knit one round, then purl 2 rounds" then immediately begin chart 5. I "assumed" the directions should have been "purl 2 rounds, knit one round" since I'd alrady done a plain knit round. After all, didn't I want a plain knit round before starting chart 5?

No.

Picky as it may seem, it made a huge difference to how both the charted pattern looked at the beginning and how the color change looked.

So I ripped.

Anne at 7:54 AM        
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