(Warning to my non-knitting pals...this will be a very boring post for you!)
I finished the lace portion on Juliet last night and took it off the needles to try it on before I finished up. It was too big. Not extremely big, but the arms were big and the back seemed really bulky and hung out quite far from my body. So.........I ripped it. Sniff sniff. It was hard to do, I really wanted to be done it and to move on to something else, not that I don't like knitting it, but I think I have a fairly short attention span and crave a new project. Anyways, I'm going to start again tonight during Grey's Anatomy on the XS and hopefully it'll work out. I'm considering decreasing the increases on the set up row for the lace. Maybe doing K1FBF instead of K1FBFB. If I do that 13 times (on the back section only), that will remove one section of the lace, and hopefully decrease the bulk in the back. Any thoughts? I don't want it to end up too small though. I am making the cropped version if that helps any fellow Juliet knitters out there. Partly to blame is probably my yarn choice - Patons Shetland Chunky...it is a bulky yarn, therefore a bulky cardi will be made!
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Too bad you had to rip it out, but you'll be glad you did, when it turns out right, and you actually get to wear it. I really like that pattern.
ReplyDeletethe greys anatomy part wasn't boring..... ; )
ReplyDeleteOh i'm sorry you had to rip but I'm glad to know that I'm not the only one! I don't like how mine turned out either...the way it hangs out so far from my back. no good. Oh well, I think I may give up on it and move on to other things. Good luck with yours!
ReplyDeleteThanks for working out all the glitches first!
ReplyDeleteTake good notes, will ya? I'll need them ;0)
At the rate I'm going, it's a few projects away...