I have been knitting away on the pure wool 2ply Christening Gown, which I need to have finished by Wednesday, to be in the Wollongong Stitch N Bitch Annual Exhibition being held at the Old Wollongong Court House across from Belmore Basin (Harbour) in W
ollongong on the weekend of 14 & 15 April.
ollongong on the weekend of 14 & 15 April.Being the Easter Long, Long Weekend (4 days) I thought it would be good to be raining all weekend so I could knit, well so far so good we have had rain a few times on Good Friday and today is pretty much raining all day, see wishes can come true.
I knitted a fair bit on Thursday night, up till around midnight, then up again the next morning after a bit of a sleep in to knit more, something didn't go right on the pattern row , counted the stitches, yep they are right, looked at the previous few rows, yep they looked right. Kept knitting for about 3 hours and got heaps done (remember this is 2ply yarn, it grows really slow). Later in the day I picked up the knitting again, I had another hitch with the pattern row (3rd row of 4 row repeat), couldn't work it out, but when I held the gown up, pulled the patterns apart a bit to se
e, and there it was way way way back it would have been the second last row I knitted on the Thursday night, I didn't pattern the 3 x knit 2 togethers, bugger it, I felt ill. What will I do, I want to sell this for a lot of money at the exhibition, well I did the only thing I could do, I ripped it all out, way way way back to before where I finished on the Thursday night, got a very very fine needle and put the stitches back on, counted them a few times to make sure I had the 136 stitches needed. Then back to knitting, so another late night knitting, then up early this morning and now I am back to about 8 rows past where I was yesterday at lunchtime. I need to get back to it. The photo will show where I was at about 10am on Friday before about 2 more hours of knitting which was ripped back.
e, and there it was way way way back it would have been the second last row I knitted on the Thursday night, I didn't pattern the 3 x knit 2 togethers, bugger it, I felt ill. What will I do, I want to sell this for a lot of money at the exhibition, well I did the only thing I could do, I ripped it all out, way way way back to before where I finished on the Thursday night, got a very very fine needle and put the stitches back on, counted them a few times to make sure I had the 136 stitches needed. Then back to knitting, so another late night knitting, then up early this morning and now I am back to about 8 rows past where I was yesterday at lunchtime. I need to get back to it. The photo will show where I was at about 10am on Friday before about 2 more hours of knitting which was ripped back.
4 comments:
The Dress is looking good. I have taken the melbourne knits and the tea cosy to Kerrys today. Hope you get plenty of knitting done today and tomorrow then.
How's that dress going?
I feel for your ripping incident, but really it's the only way. It's done now, and did you find that getting back to the place where you found the mistake was faster the second time around?
I usually do..
email me about where your exhi knitting is up to..
seeyousoon
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Ugh! What a drama! I'm hoping to see the gown in person at the exhibition!
PS Forgot to say - It is looking amazing and certainly worth the effort of ripping back!
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