Tuesday, June 28, 2011

WIP Wednesday


On last week’s Work in Progress Wednesday, I had to rip out my Celebrity Tank because it was turning out huge. The designer, Rachel Dickman, read my post and messaged me on Ravelry. She had a really good point. She said that she had designed the garment with two inches of ease in the hips, then cinched it with the ribbon. Since I am omitting the ribbon, this might be why I was having a problem. She suggested that if I wanted to knit the size small sans ribbon, that I do a few extra increases to get the bust back up to the medium size. This makes total sense. I don’t think making the medium and cinching the waist would work very well for me- I have an hourglass shape and need a little more waist definition- but knitting the small with a medium-sized bust seems like it would be perfect.

I was pleasantly surprised to hear from the designer. It didn’t occur to me that she would be perusing my little blog! I was thrilled that she took the time and effort to message me with her suggestions on fit, especially when I hadn’t even asked! It was so helpful.

So there I was, working along on the tank, thinking about how to best space the extra increases, when I realized- I had twisted my knitting when I joined in the round, and had a mobius strip instead of the bottom of a sweater. I’m not even sure how I managed to do that! I was so careful to check and make sure I wasn’t twisting, but apparently I was not careful enough. Amidst much cursing, I frogged again. I have now cast-on for a third time, carefully joined, and hopefully will have a much smoother knit than the last two times. I am determined to knit this tank, but I’m not sure how much frogging I (or the yarn!) can take. On the bright side, I’m getting a lot of practice at the provisional cast-on for my folded hem- I don’t even have to look at the directions anymore!

On a brighter note, look what I found:

I’m not sure when I started these, but they have been languishing with other unfinished objects for awhile, and I had forgotten about them! They’re a nice, simple sock, following Silver’s Sock Class. I’ve turned the heel, picked up stitches, and am working on the decreases. It’s a nice, simple knit, although I did manage to sit on and break one of the needles (on the same day that I had the problems with the Celebrity Tank! Sunday was NOT a good day for knitting!)

I knit another repeat on my Clapotis, but it looks pretty much the same as it did last week, so I don’t think it’s worth posting another picture.

Head on over to Tami’s Amis and see what everyone else is working on!

10 comments:

  1. Ooof, Sunday sounds like a bad knitting day - I hate those, where everything seems to go wrong. I'm sure the tank will follow the 3rd time lucky rule!

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  2. I have Celebrity Tank in my queue so I'm very glad I found your post - it will certainly be helpful once I start knitting it!

    Third time lucky for you I hope!

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  3. Ugh! Murphy's WIP day it sounds like.

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  4. I love it when I hear from designers! Even when they only leave a comment and fave my project. It's why I try to look through my patterns and see who has made my stuff.

    Sucks about the twisted sweater. I tried to make a sweater with boucle once and realized a bunch of rounds in that I twisted it. Thus I have never made a sweater, haha!

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  5. Oh dear, the multiple-frogging is just a nightmare, but nice of the designer to help out. I also think it's lovely when they do that, or when they comment on the rav page.

    Good luck with it x

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  6. Oh man, your Sunday sounds like it was a nightmare! I'm keeping my fingers crossed that this time the tank goes well. That's awesome the designer actually contacted you!

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  7. Stick with the tank it will be worth it in the end!
    Lovely socks too!

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  8. Frogging is never fun, your top sounds very complicated. I wish you lots of luck with it. How cool she contacted you to try to offer assistance.

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  9. That is really cool that the designer contacted you! I'm impressed.

    Sorry about the mobius mistake...and the broken needle. I guess no more knitting on Sundays.

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  10. That was lovely of the designer to contact you. Maybe the third time will be the charm!

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