Working on this Icelandic sweater has become a very humbling experience for me.
First it was the tension in the sleeves. Then it was the oopsie with the reading of the chart. Most recently, as I was trying on the sweater to make sure the neck wasn’t too tight, I realized that I put one of the sleeves on wrong – my increases were displaying on the outside of the sleeve rather than on the inside, along the inside of the arm. At this point, I was a cast-off edge and underarm grafting away from being finished.
What to do? What to do?
I figured I had two options:
- Rip back all of the yoke to where I joined the sleeves. (No thanks!)
- Secure a couple of rows and cut out the sleeve. (Best option.)
So yesterday, I executed option #2. I was so nervous!
Everything is secure now and ready for grafting. Let’s see how well I do at this. A toe on a sock is a piece of cake compared to this. If I don’t do it properly, it’ll look ridiculous!
Fingers crossed for me please.
