It’s finally off the needles, that piece that had me Lost in Numberland. And I still didn’t get it right. Where the back yoke should lie smooth, it’s ruffled.
This wasn’t obvious until the finished piece was blocked, since it’s knitted of bamboo, which becomes limpid and drapey only under steam. Argghhhh.
Now, I can salvage the prototype by taking a few darts in the back yoke, and since it’s bamboo, which yields so nicely to steam, it will barely be obvious. It will wear the same and look nearly the same.
But I can’t give the instructions to YOU that way. It must be gotten right.
So there’s nothing for it but a second knit, ‘cause I’m sure not gonna rip a blocked piece back to its base.
The big-name designers must have test knitters, accurate folks for whom it’s their first time with any given design, detail-oriented folks who can say, “There’s something wrong here” and suggest how to fix it. Perhaps the yarn company that buys the design provides the test knitter(s); I wouldn’t know.
I’m just out here eating the spiders.
I think I’ll dip a few in chocolate.
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