A new curséd sweater appears
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cimoreneMy first curséd sweater was one I knitted for my brother in law like ten years ago where every single part of it somehow had to be unraveled and redone at least once.
Later, purple yarn I bought for myself became the second curséd sweater when it first had to be reknitted in every stitch at least once, mysteriously unraveled while blocking and also didn't fit in spite of being tried on in progress; then we unraveled the whole thing and I made a different sweater from it which was also reknitted all over at least once, ran out of yarn, and couldn't button properly. So we unraveled it and I made a sweater vest that I finished completely and even wove in the ends before discovering I had accidentally left out an entire section of the back, making it smaller than the front. The yarn was written off at this point.
The third curséd sweater is the third of the triplet sweaters we promised to make last summer, originally saying we would try to finish them all by last winter, lol. The other two are done.
1. Wax started this traditional Aran cabled sweater last fall and knitted about 30% of it, but she had modified the pattern to make it smaller, and then decided it was too small (because all the cables contracted it so much).
2. I unraveled it and started over, following the pattern exactly (after Wax had to redo the first few rounds of ribbing for me, because the first time I knitted a couple of inches before realizing I had gotten the stitches twisted and was knitting a Möbius strip). I hated the design. Way too many different cable crosses slowed it down a ton.
3. Then I realized, after working for weeks, and especially right after like ten hours of knitting in two days, that I was using the yarn too fast and we didn't have enough left to finish. This shouldn't be possible, because we ordered the yarn using this pattern as a guide. But it was! And because it was over six months ago, we almost certainly could not get more yarn in the same dye lot.
4. Started over again with a new, much simpler cable pattern, and again got the stitches twisted. It's not like I wasn't checking! Both times I was worried about it and checked twice, then incorrectly concluded they were not twisted1! At least this time I realized that I was knitting a Möbius strip after only about a centimeter.
Footnote
1. this part is just adhd, not the curse
Later, purple yarn I bought for myself became the second curséd sweater when it first had to be reknitted in every stitch at least once, mysteriously unraveled while blocking and also didn't fit in spite of being tried on in progress; then we unraveled the whole thing and I made a different sweater from it which was also reknitted all over at least once, ran out of yarn, and couldn't button properly. So we unraveled it and I made a sweater vest that I finished completely and even wove in the ends before discovering I had accidentally left out an entire section of the back, making it smaller than the front. The yarn was written off at this point.
The third curséd sweater is the third of the triplet sweaters we promised to make last summer, originally saying we would try to finish them all by last winter, lol. The other two are done.
1. Wax started this traditional Aran cabled sweater last fall and knitted about 30% of it, but she had modified the pattern to make it smaller, and then decided it was too small (because all the cables contracted it so much).
2. I unraveled it and started over, following the pattern exactly (after Wax had to redo the first few rounds of ribbing for me, because the first time I knitted a couple of inches before realizing I had gotten the stitches twisted and was knitting a Möbius strip). I hated the design. Way too many different cable crosses slowed it down a ton.
3. Then I realized, after working for weeks, and especially right after like ten hours of knitting in two days, that I was using the yarn too fast and we didn't have enough left to finish. This shouldn't be possible, because we ordered the yarn using this pattern as a guide. But it was! And because it was over six months ago, we almost certainly could not get more yarn in the same dye lot.
4. Started over again with a new, much simpler cable pattern, and again got the stitches twisted. It's not like I wasn't checking! Both times I was worried about it and checked twice, then incorrectly concluded they were not twisted1! At least this time I realized that I was knitting a Möbius strip after only about a centimeter.
Footnote
1. this part is just adhd, not the curse
