Deviating from Plan A
By JC | July 25, 2012
Lately I haven’t been knitting much because another project has grabbed all my interest, but I still need to have something on my needles, you know? So I’m futzing around with a crescent-shaped shawlette. The idea is to have a pretty scalloped pattern along the bottom edge – namely, this one:
with slight variations, of course
– and to fill in the rest with simple garter stitch, shaping with short rows and maybe decreases.
The “gotcha!” is knitting the shawlette lengthwise, from the bottom up, to get the stitch pattern oriented the way I want. This meant casting on 463 stitches. Sure, the short-row shaping means the rows are getting shorter… but still, my progress has been slow.
And my progress is about to get slower. I realized late last night (why do these realizations always occur late at night??) that I had ceased to read the chart I’d created for myself, and had knit several rows on auto-pilot.
in a yarn that shall remain nameless, because I can’t find its ball band
If you look at my original swatch, you’ll see a three-row sequence (a purl ridge, yo/k2tog eyelets, and another purl ridge) that’s worked a total of four times: twice near the bottom, and twice near the top.
And if you look closely at the WIP, you’ll see that the third sequence is differs from the others. Its yo are clustered near the center of each scallop repeat, instead of distributed evenly throughout.
Pfft.
Fixing this goof will mean ripping back several rows. It’s gonna be tedious.
Then again…
I’m just futzing around with this shawlette, right? No-one says I have to knit it as originally planned. Maybe this would be a good chance to practice deviating from Plan A – something I ordinarily find rather difficult to do.
Besides. I think I kind of like the auto-pilot variation.
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