Scary Picture for the Day
Yes - all the rust colored are LIVE stitches! More than 400 in total! Goodness knows I've stalled long enough with this silly Pinwheel sweater! Both sleeves are finished and I've almost knit an entire skein of my luxury cabled sweater yarn already so I couldn't find any more excuses not to bite the bullet and start ripping! I fitted one end onto the ball winder and wound as I had yardage. I was not going to create a spaghetti monster in the process! Of course it was slow going, mostly because this yarn is a singles yarn and tends to snag on itself. I worked away until I was down to the last 2 rust rows. I pulled the live row, picked up the variegated stitches and then pulled the last rust stitches as I went. It guaranteed I never missed a stitch and none of them raveled. It also meant I had quite a pile of rust built up before I got to the very end but it was easy to sort only 1 round's worth. I also started out in airhead mode, completely forgetting that I should be inserting stitch markers until I noticed the fourth increase "seam". So I put safety pins on the circ cable for the ones I'd missed and made sure to watch for the others!
So now "all" I have to do is knit another 6", do the edge stitch pattern, add the trim and it's done. The only real stinker in all this is that I never did find another 36" circular. I ended up picking the stitches up onto two 29" circs. I learned from before that ONE 29" circ is waaaay too small for all those stitches and putting them on two has certainly taken care of the congestion. I got the idea from the method of knitting socks with 2 circs but with a project this large the first few inches you knit when you switch from one set to the other is a bit of a PIA and I have to be so careful not to have ladders.
When I knit the first round like this I amused myself by thinking how much easier it would be to have a second knitter working the other set on the other side from me! Not to mention it would work up twice as fast! LOL!! Sweet daydream!! Unfortunately both DDs are crocheters not knitters - sigh! And I could see this possibly tedious job turning into a raging nightmare with a (slow) beginner working opposite me - mostly because they wouldn't be on the opposite side for long! LOL!!
So I'm finally in the home stretch with this sweater but I think it's going to be longer than a furlough to finish!!
This is a massive undertaking to be sure. Can't wait to see it finished.
Have to go and look up the pinwheel sweater now.
Doris
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Undertaking... hmmm... an appropriate word for dealing with dead projects.. LOL!!
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You are a truly brave woman! :o)
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That's me! Try anything once! LOL!
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