Knitting woes

[siercia]

I just realized I screwed up the front of my shapely tank in a significant way, and I'm not sure at this point if I should just go with the flow and call it an adaptation, or if I have to rip out down to below my short rows and re-do it all.

Here's what I did. I misread the pattern, and started my short rows right after I finished increasing, instead of going to 12 inches and starting my short rows there. So I started them about 8 inches up. Since I was doing 3 repeats of the short rows, I gained my needed length in with those, and started decreasing for the armholes about 3 rows after my short rows.

It did give it a slightly weird shape, where the bind off edge ended up more vertical than horizontal, and I can see how it would lay better if I started them up higher as well. I'm also not sure at all how to adjust the back if I decide to just keep going.

I am so cranky right now I could scream. I'd actually entertained fantasies of finishing the back tonight. Hahahaha. Now I just feel like going to bed, instead.

Any thoughts, suggestions, commiseration?

Comments

commiseration...

[mamawrites.livejournal.com]

I haven't knit since I came back from my vacation trip (so, no knitting for a full week!) because I slammed the car door on my wooden circulars during the long drive from NYC to Cleveland, and one is splintered. Also, I'm not convinced that I'm going to have enough of the darker blue yarn to do the whole top of the bodice, so I should probably rip back and finish all the light blue parts first.

It's always excruciating for me to rip back.

{{{hugs}}}

Re: commiseration...

[siercia]

It's even worse because I really thought I was almost done.

Although, after reading the IK article on grafting this month, I'm wondering if I can cut it, knit the extra I need, and then graft the pieces together. I'm going to ask my knitting expert the next time I see her if she thinks it's a viable answer.