Time for another installment of Knit-a-palooza! And I have some finished objects and a tragic tale of woe for you all this week…
First off, here are the results of the DC/MD/VA primaries:
As you can see, they’re already in use. Aren’t they lovely?
As soon as they were finished, I went back to my sweater sleeves. I had read on Ravelry to be careful about remembering to do the sleeve increases at the same time I was working on the cabled bit, so I had marked off the increase rows to be sure I didn’t screw them up.
I was sick with a cold, so I got a fair amount of knitting in on Thursday and Friday. I was so excited to have finished the chart for the pattern on the sleeves last night:
Don’t they look great? I thought so too.
That is, until I decided to read the pattern to see what I needed to do next and how much further I had to go with just plain stockinette stitch for the rest of the sleeve. That’s when I discovered that I had left out half of the increases: I only increased 2 stitches on every increase row, when I should have increased by 4. Of course, I could have avoided this by, you know, actually reading the directions for the increase row instead of just skimming them. D’oh!
So this morning I unraveled all my work back to where I went wrong, and this is where I am now:
Sigh.
So, what’s needling you this week?
