That Screeching Noise You Hear?
That would be me. Screaming. In anguish.
I had the back done on the CPH. Done. As in ‘did the bind offs for the shoulders’ done. Then I realized that I had too many live stitches to put on a holder.
I looked at the beautiful, almost complete, evenly knit piece I had before me and had a head-banging-into-a-brick-wall moment. When I began the decreases for the arms? I only bound off 4 stitches to make the armhole, not 8.
I had to rip back 9 inches of knitting.
No, really. I did. I tried to figure out some way to fix it without having to rip but I just couldn’t wrap my brain around making knit stitches disappear into thin air. I’m pretty sure it can’t be done. If it can? Don’t tell me.
Yay.
January 30th, 2008 at 12:39 am
Damn! i wonder if all of the frogged stitches of the universe were placed together how far they would reach. I know that I would have contributed my fair share to the amphibian super-stitch highway. Knitting is fun though and you didn’t really want to finish too soon.
January 30th, 2008 at 1:10 am
Girl, it happens to the best of us - and you are one of the best
January 30th, 2008 at 6:08 am
Ouch! That’s exactly the sort of thing that caused Jason’s green sweater to languish for so long. My deepest sympathies.
January 30th, 2008 at 7:20 am
Oh. That sucks.
January 30th, 2008 at 7:26 am
Ouchie. I’m sorry. That would make me throw things until something broke.
January 30th, 2008 at 7:30 am
Argh! I’ve got to believe that it will all be worth it in the end, to have a sweater that you will be happy with and proud to wear!
January 30th, 2008 at 8:38 am
Oh.My.God. *wince*
I’m sorry?
January 30th, 2008 at 8:43 am
ARGH! that does hurt just to *read* let alone do - but we knit because we love it….*right*?
January 30th, 2008 at 8:55 am
Crap.
Those are the times when you wish you had Mrs. Weasley’s wand!!!
January 30th, 2008 at 9:42 am
Man I hate it when that happens and it happens here all too often.
January 30th, 2008 at 11:22 am
Oh holy hand grenades. I’m sorry. *passes the chocolate*
January 30th, 2008 at 12:23 pm
No! I’m so sorry, sweetie. That just sucks.
January 30th, 2008 at 12:43 pm
Oh, crap-o-rama. I can so appreciate the feeling.
January 30th, 2008 at 2:37 pm
I hate that! I don’t know if I would have had the mental strength to rip it right back like that.
January 30th, 2008 at 4:23 pm
Oh No!
That is horrible.
Really dreadful.
January 30th, 2008 at 7:12 pm
I don’t know what to say other than, that really sucks!
January 31st, 2008 at 2:58 am
Oh, I hear ya! I’m going through the same thing right now.
January 31st, 2008 at 12:31 pm
I swear this pattern is cursed. *sigh*
January 31st, 2008 at 8:09 pm
Oh yeah, been there before.
February 1st, 2008 at 1:23 am
Dude, you and that sweater!! So many problems, but it will be worth it in the end, truly.
February 1st, 2008 at 5:56 am
It totally sucks, but it could happen to anyone.
I bagged a Samus (much less intense than a CPH, but still), when I discovered that one front side was 9 stitches wider than the other. Unless I wanted to walk diagonally to create an optical illusion of symmetry, it had to go. I just didn’t care enough to save it.
You’ll get through it.
February 3rd, 2008 at 3:36 pm
That sucks! By now you’ve probably finished the back but the thought came to mind…cigarette lighter would probably get rid of stitches REEEEEEAAAALLL good.