Well, I’m trying a “challenging” sweater now… I was going to do a Japanese-style short kimono sweater for myself, and I was about 2/3 done with the obi part of it, when I realized that the cut of it would look really bad on me. So I’m abandoning that project and doing something different.
Now I’m doing a form-fitted tank sweater, using the charcoal gray yarn that I had purchased for the kimono sweater. It requires “short rows,” which I’ve never done before. Last night, in my mania, I was knitting along trying to integrate the short rows, and I did REALLY well on one side of the sweater and REALLY badly on the other side. In trying to fix the cruddy side, I DESTROYED what I had done so far. Completely unsalvageable.
Thank God it was only two inches or so of work. So I’m starting completely over.
I’m going to try to figure out what the hell I’m doing on a swatch today, and THEN start the Real Thing again. Once I figure it out. 🙂