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Curséd hoodie
13 Aug 2021 08:04 amThe original curséd sweater was one I knitted ages ago for my brother in law. Various things kept going wrong and I had to knit every single stitch of this sweater, which was nearly knee-length on me, at least twice, and much of it more than that.
The new curséd hoodie was one I decided to make for myself in 2019 when we were moving into this house. I ordered the yarn shortly before MIL died, and the beginnings of the sweater got lost in the carnage. I picked it back up in summer 2020 and finished knitting it eventually, although I did have to frog about half of it and reknit it, and the original zipper I ordered for it got lost in the mail, creating a delay while I reported it missing. The replacement zipper arrived shortly before our tenant needed to move in, and in the hectic move from the other side of the house into this one in fall 2020, the second zipper got lost. I kept waiting over a year for the second zipper to show up and finally I gave up and ordered a replacement a couple of weeks ago, and when it got here I washed the sweater to block it, only to discover a moth had eaten (or else a really TERRIBLE job of joining ends unraveled?) a large hole in the back, right next to a large cable. Wax and I both tried to figure out how to darn it for several hours the other day, only to conclude the only way would be to unravel the whole sweater back to that point (about six inches of the bottom hem) and reknit it. The only thing was, the whole sweater had an applied icord finishing knitted around the front opening after it was finished, and that would've had to be redone as well. I tried the sweater on a last time and found that not only were the sleeves too snug to wear tshirts under, the whole sweater was designed to be tight but had a worsted-weight lace motif that opened up into pretty large openwork holes when stretched closed. This isn't entirely due to the pattern; part of it was that my yarn was a little finer and I was knitting at a looser gauge to get gauge and the resulting fabric was more loose and drapey than the original design. (But really the holes are a bizarre feature for a hoodie anyway, IMO.)
So after more than two years and after blocking, when I had been preparing to sew the zipper in... I handed the whole thing to Wax to frog. It's a big pile of purple yarn balls again and last night I cast on for another worsted-weight hoodie with no lace. It could take more than a month to knit! My anticipation is frustrated.
The new curséd hoodie was one I decided to make for myself in 2019 when we were moving into this house. I ordered the yarn shortly before MIL died, and the beginnings of the sweater got lost in the carnage. I picked it back up in summer 2020 and finished knitting it eventually, although I did have to frog about half of it and reknit it, and the original zipper I ordered for it got lost in the mail, creating a delay while I reported it missing. The replacement zipper arrived shortly before our tenant needed to move in, and in the hectic move from the other side of the house into this one in fall 2020, the second zipper got lost. I kept waiting over a year for the second zipper to show up and finally I gave up and ordered a replacement a couple of weeks ago, and when it got here I washed the sweater to block it, only to discover a moth had eaten (or else a really TERRIBLE job of joining ends unraveled?) a large hole in the back, right next to a large cable. Wax and I both tried to figure out how to darn it for several hours the other day, only to conclude the only way would be to unravel the whole sweater back to that point (about six inches of the bottom hem) and reknit it. The only thing was, the whole sweater had an applied icord finishing knitted around the front opening after it was finished, and that would've had to be redone as well. I tried the sweater on a last time and found that not only were the sleeves too snug to wear tshirts under, the whole sweater was designed to be tight but had a worsted-weight lace motif that opened up into pretty large openwork holes when stretched closed. This isn't entirely due to the pattern; part of it was that my yarn was a little finer and I was knitting at a looser gauge to get gauge and the resulting fabric was more loose and drapey than the original design. (But really the holes are a bizarre feature for a hoodie anyway, IMO.)
So after more than two years and after blocking, when I had been preparing to sew the zipper in... I handed the whole thing to Wax to frog. It's a big pile of purple yarn balls again and last night I cast on for another worsted-weight hoodie with no lace. It could take more than a month to knit! My anticipation is frustrated.
