Yesterday's 'large project' got frogged. Once again, I got that hard slap to the face that often results from a lack of proper swatching.
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| Frogged the secret project |
For the record, I did swatch. Sort of. Can I count ten stitches and six or seven rows as a swatch? My mini swatch seemed perfectly fine but.... As we all know, mini swatches tend to lie, sometimes even more than no swatches. Although the mini swatch seemed fine, it ended up producing stiff as cardboard fabric that was waaaaaaaay bigger than anticipated.
Will I ever learn?
In any event, it got frogged and has been cast back onto the needles. Larger needles and with about half as many stitches.
On a different note, only one more day of NaBloPoMo to go! I'm very proud of myself this year. I haven't missed a single day!
Join me over at Kat's for today's #Unraveled link-up.
bummer about the ripping out, but us seasoned knitters do that all the time :)
ReplyDeleteI never swatch. I know I will live to regret this, but in the meantime, it feels pretty good!
ReplyDeleteI have learned swatching lessons so many times over my years of knitting. And, somehow, I'm pretty sure I still have swatching lessons to learn.
ReplyDeleteGood work on NaBloPoMo! It's always a challenge, but so much fun to read so many posts during November. XO
After a few sweater unravelings, I am getting much better at swatching
ReplyDeleteThis made me chuckle a bit as I am a famous mini swatch maker and yet wonder why my projects don't work out?
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