A Day to Frog

March 8th, 2009

Two projects I had to frog today, but I feel good about doing it for both of them. Maybe it’s the sun and warm spring weather we’re having, or maybe it’s these projects feel fresh because they’ve spent a lot of time in hibernation. As long as I don’t have to do too much more ripping back on these, I’m happy to do it now.

This is my second piece on the sweater I’ve been working on, and hopefully this isn’t a warning of things to come as in the previous piece. I got over halfway through knitting it before I had to rip anything back, which is a good sign. I was being pretty careful about the pattern, and following my rows cautiously when I realized there was one measely increase that I missed on the outside edge of the garter panel. Whoops! A roughly 10 row frog isn’t so bad compared to the rip-it hell of the first piece.

Compared to my slow progress before, I feel like I’m flying along on this piece despite the small stitches. Just a back piece, and two sleeves to go! Then there’s the grafting, seaming…OK maybe it’s not quite that close to finished.

I realize you haven’t seen much of this guy since before the fall. I didn’t really post anything after the swatch, but you can see it’s coming along. I haven’t touched it since before the holidays, but it was a well deserved break. At that point I had finished one sleeve (which you see above), and started the other when I realized my gauge on the sleeves was off. I probably could have fudged it, but it was just a teeny bit too tight on my husband’s arm. Since it’s been over a month I feel pretty comfortable starting all over on the sleeves.

I must say, this has been super easy and when I actually work on it, it flies off the needles. No waist shaping and a wonderful combination of garter/stockinette stitch. Such a contrast to the sage cardigan! Not only can we women be high maintenance sometimes, but I guess our sweaters are too.

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