You should have a Serenity Prayer for frogging sweaters. You would address it, of course, to Elizabeth Zimmermann or the knitting deity of your choosing. It would allow you to accept the inevitability of knitting mistakes and foibles. You would say your prayer, take a deep breath, and frog away.
The following three sweaters are either half-finished, or finished and look horrible, and the world will be better served if they return to the (expensive) hanks from which they came.
1) Tangled Yoke Cardigan
I have been knitting this cardigan since 2007 and have tried to knit the cable chart three times without success. It’s certainly not that I can’t knit cables. I just can’t knit these. I will never know why.
“EZ, help me to accept the patterns I cannot change. Tangled Yoke Cardigan, I release thee.”
Net gain: 5 hanks of Rowan Tapestry
2) Cabled Pullover
I knit this pullover during the 2008 Olympics for the Ravelympics challenge. I finished! I love Malabrigo Chunky so much! Lettuce is my favorite colorway! It looks so wonderful on the model! It makes me look like the Incredible (Knitted) Hulk!
“EZ, help me to accept that I do not look good in an oversized sweater knit at 3 stitches to the inch. Cabled Pullover, I release thee.”
Net gain: 9 skeins Malabrigo Chunky, in Lettuce
3) Fair Isle Sweater
This was supposed to be the Princess’ ninth birthday present. First, I, of course, did not finish. Second, it is knitting up huge and my two-handed stranding is all puckery. Third, she is turning out to be more of a basketball skateboarding ninja princess than a wears-pink princess. And hates pink. And there is nothing wrong with that.
“EZ, help me to accept the sartorial preferences of my gift recipients, even if they are girls who look adorable in pink. Fair Isle Sweater, I release thee.”
Net gain: A great quantity of Rowan Little Big Wool in Onyx, Amber, and Garnet
Wow, I feel like I was walking on the beach, and I looked back at the footprints in the sand, and it turned out you were carrying me all along, and also thousands of yards of yarn I didn’t know I had. Everywhere like such as.
P.S. Did you notice there is knitting on my blog now, and, therefore, not on my old blog anymore? No, your eyes do not deceive you!
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thanks so much for this. I am going to march upstairs and say my own and frog about 6 skeins of twinkle chunky that i effed up way more than you can imagine.
Oh, I can imagine, all right. I didn’t take a picture of what I really did to the poor Rowan Tapestry by the time I had ripped back the cardigan four times. The yoke was, like, denuded.
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