Last winter I made Jack a striped sweater. All went well until I started decreasing stitches for the neck line. ssk, doesn't mean slip, slip, slip. It means slip, slip, knit! So the top portion of his sweater aka "the yoke" looked BAD! I left it for many months..always looking at it wondering how I could fix it, thinking, "what am I going to do with all those stitches?" RIP!!!
I loved the color palette I chose, if only it could be ripped down to the underarm & started again. I did try!! I promise Jack, but the stitches were hard to pull off under the sleeve (arm hole) portion. Slowly, I realized this wasn't going to be Jack's sweater. Big sigh:(
Cowl with long arm/wrist warmers was my second solution. So I knitted away for days trying to clean up the edges & make it a wearable project. Then after wearing the arm warmers all day yesterday, I realized the cowl just wasn't going to look right. Wearable yes, but it just didn't feel right. SO!! As I looked at the bottom cast on ribbed portion, my thought was to sew that down, put a little elastic in there & voila! Maddie's gets a brand new skirt & legwarmers. Jack, I promise there's a sweater coming soon.
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