Decisions, decisions
so last year I started Jasmine, from Kim Hargreaves. I was using some semi-solid Koigu KPPPM, and the back came out just to-die-for.
I finished this in late August, so I decided to let it marinate for the winter. Saturday I got the hankering to finish it up, so I dragged it out of its hiding place (which it really was–it took me a good hour to find it, and then another 90 minutes to find the damn book and the correct needles). I quickly cast on, and away I went.
This morning, I held up the new knitting to compare:
Huh? The lessons here? Plenty. 1. don’t let projects sit for so long. you no longer have a good enough memory to retain the details. 2. you’re a loose knitter. you always go down a size. take notes on the needles used. 3.  who do you think you’re fooling by knitting a back that small???? You’re freaking 5′10″ for crying out loud. That back WILL. NOT. FIT.
The back fits gauge (7 st to the inch). The front is 6 to the inch. I have a couple of options.
1. I figured out that I can make the front on the current needles in the XS to get a 37″ finished bust size, which is my size. And I can do so without ripping out the seed stitch hem which, because i’m a thrower, I absolutely hate. The down side? I will have to re-knit the back, seed stitch and all.
2. I can take out the entire front, reknit the seed stitch hem and everything else in the correct needles to give me the gauge (which is correct). The downside–will it fit? I think I was overly optimistic when I started this thing. So it will need some aggressive blocking.
3. Frog the entire thing. Because when it comes down to it, I think the most appealing aspect of this project was the gun metal gray skinny belt on the model.
4. move on. Start Raindance instead.
