Remember this sweater?
It’s Madelinetosh’s Tiny Tea Leaves. I love this sweater. SweetP loves this sweater. But every time she puts it on, it slips off her shoulder. Just like every other sweater I make. There’s something wrong about how I do my gauge.
Anyway, she keeps trying to wear this sweater and then takes it back off again and puts it back on the hook. So I decided to fix it.
First, I frogged it.
Then, as I was doing my gauge swatch, my friend Ruth pointed out that I was twisting my purl stitch. (Three years ago, my friend Heidi pointed out that I was twisting my knit stitch.) You can see the difference here, as the bottom (larger gauge) is twisted, and the smaller (top) section is straight.
So that’s what I’m working on. When it’s done, I’m planning to cast on a spring sweater for myself. I’m sure it will be done just as the summer heats up.
What are you knitting?
Aw, I’m sorry you had to frog it! I crocheted a border around one of my daughter’s dresses about a week ago, because it was having the same problem.
I thought about doing that (and the pattern already has a perpendicular knitted-after button band) but it was SO huge.