Showing posts with label storybook. Show all posts
Showing posts with label storybook. Show all posts

Thursday, January 6, 2011

Time to Unwind

After Christmas, we went to visit my husband's family. That meant I got to knit through a long drive, and then I got to sit around for several days with few responsibilities and lots of knitting time. Yay!

I had been working on a sweater coat for my daughter from Joanna Johnson's book. I made rapid progress at first, but then I realized it was going to be too small. I wanted to get a 25" chest for the sweater. What I ended up with was a 25" circumference *before* taking into account the overlap needed for the buttons in the front. I am usually loathe to rip something all the way back and will do almost anything to avoid it. I could have just ripped back the bodice part and done a bit of fanagling, but in the end, I bit the bullet and decided to redo the whole thing. To save time, I just reknit directly from the old piece instead of unwinding it first.


Once I got going again, it went pretty quickly on size 10-1/2 needles.

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Details are on Ravelry.