I just spent all of my free time over the past 36 hours devouring the new Monica Ferris Needlecraft Mystery novel. Don’t be too impressed, they’re not difficult reads. But when I read a mystery, I have to practically sit on my hands to not flip to the end to check my guess about who did it, so I read them fast. I actually had this one right about half-way through, and spent the rest of the book trying to figure out why the rest of the characters didn’t see it.
Silly, I know.
Anyway, that’s why the only knitting I’ve done in the past couple of days was last night at Sit & Knit. I’m a little panicked, because I think my new cardie is going to be smaller than the gauge swatch indicated. My gauge swatch gave me 19 stitches to 4″. The recommended gauge was 20 stitches to 4″. Around the body of the sweater, that would give me an extra 2″, which made the medium size perfectly match my favorite cardigan. Now that I’m several inches into it, however, I’m measuring 20 stitches to 4″. One blasted little stitch off. I suppose I could always knit the front bands a little wider if it really works out to be a little snug, especially since it uses clasps instead of buttons. Then again, maybe blocking it will do the trick. Or maybe I should (gasp) rip it and start over with a bigger needle…? That really doesn’t sound like too much fun. Did I mention that I’ve done several 3-color rows? On 215 stitches?
I think I’d better sleep on that one.
DON’T RIP!
We have the ripping karma going around I know, but I sure wouldn’t rip something like that.
I’d do the button band thing, and you know that wool is so stretchy you can block it out, too. Don’t worry!
And don’t rip!