Those of you who have made mistakes before that require extensive frogging (ripping out your knitting) are likely well acquainted with the meaning of individually rolled balls of yarn with crinkly yarn coming off of them. Yep. I’ve done some ripping of sleeves in the past few days.
These sleeves were probably 14-15″ when I decided to count and make sure everything was on track and figure out how many increases I had left before I planned to take them to knit in a movie (Paddington 2). When I did this I discovered that one sleeve had five more stitches than the other. Ahhhhhh! Yikes. When I investigated further and really took a close look I realized that there was no quick fix. I had to rip back to about five total inches of sleeve and then I still had to make an increase appear a couple of rows back from that point.
I was lulled into comfort by the soothing stockinette and it didn’t occur to me to count and check on things! Bah! It feels like this fingering weight size 40 something in the chest sweater will never be done! I know it will, but I put the sleeves in time out from the afternoon of the mistake discovery until the next morning. I mentioned this to my kiddos and Zooey looked at me wide-eyed. Time out? She knew those sleeves were in trouble. To be fair to the sleeves, it’s my human error of course. Luckily, I adore this Miss Babs Keira yarn in McHales. The color has just the slightest amount of variation. It’s the only sweater I’ve made him so far that I think he could wear next to the skin with no issue if he wanted. I’m so glad I have some squirreled away in the stash for myself too!
Ok, ok. I’m going to get back to these sleeves and try to have a good attitude about it. Slow fashion, right?
I just saw a tip if you ever frog a project completely to out the yarn in a bra wash bag (if Acrylic otherwise wash according to directions) and it should relax to precrinkle when washed
Thanks for the tip! I’ve had pretty good luck with blocking out crinkles from frogged yarn and this shouldn’t be much of an issue since it’s it’s the same size needle and same project.
Should be good!
OH snap! I’m sorry you had to frog back progress. Better you caught it now than when you’re about attach them. I did many froggings on socks last year which is why I make mini swatches.
Put a kettle on to boil and when it is steaming pass the yarn through the steam. The crinkles gently fall out and the yarn doesn’t get wet, it probably does need to dry a little bit though. I’ve done this several times and it is fun to watch the yarn relax. Just watch out and don’t get a steam burn.