Did you ever wake up too early in the morning and have to get up because you suddenly realized there might be a mistake in your knitting?
Or is that just me?
As I tried to go back to sleep, I got to wondering HOW I was making the V-neck increases. I wanted a knit stitch to stay along the edge of the knitting for a smoother edge instead of stair steps from the increases. I figured it might be easier to pick up stitches for the neck ribbing that way. But that led to some confusion again. I feared I’d started building from that edge instead of building out from the sweater’s pattern.
I was right. I was doing it wrong. I only had to ladder down a few rows of knit stitch and and a few rows of purl stitch on each side. Being so close to the edge was a little tricky. I didn’t want to make a mistake and mess up the selvedge edge. I’ve had to rip back knitting more than once after fouling up edge stitches. I find them too confusing to reconstruct.
So I’m on track again, building out the pattern from the sweater side, not the selvedge side. Phew!
Don’t worry. I won’t show daily progress shots of this sweater. It’s done on smaller needles with thinner yarn than I’ve ever used when making a sweater, so this project is liable to take me awhile. I notice already how long it takes to knit a row and I haven’t even reached the shoulder ends yet.
I’ve got pictures of other things to liven things up a bit. I’ll rest easier tonight—until or unless I think up something else to worry about. Ha!
UPDATE: I was doing it right the first time. Sheesh!
When I went to increase again, I did it my second-thought-way and it’s just wrong! Really I should just forget the knit stitch along the edge. It’s only confusing me all to pieces. I’ve got about four inches knitted, though. From time to time I’m tempted to rip the whole thing out and start over. Then I wonder if I can just fix the edges. Without touching the edge stitch.
What? You mean the edge stitch that is the very problem? Yeah, that one. Sigh. One more goof and I’m likely ripping back and starting over. I can take a hint.