So today I took a deep breath, slowly picked back, and re-did the button band. I'm thinking I should have done those holes one row later. Sigh! I'm going to have to think about this.
Thursday, January 06, 2011
Getting back on the Horse that Threw You
The reason I needed to rip back that buttonhole band is that between the binding off and the casting on and the slipping and the wrapping and the passing stitches over; I ending up with the wrong stitch count (and the placement of one hole a stitch off, to boot). I thought that I could fudge it with some decreases/increases on the return row. If I had been working in garter I probably could have gotten away with it. But seed stitch is deceptively simple. Disturb it's perfect regularity and it screams "mistake".
So today I took a deep breath, slowly picked back, and re-did the button band. I'm thinking I should have done those holes one row later. Sigh! I'm going to have to think about this.
So today I took a deep breath, slowly picked back, and re-did the button band. I'm thinking I should have done those holes one row later. Sigh! I'm going to have to think about this.
So...once you are wearing the sweater and the buttons are *pulling* on the buttonholes a little bit, perhaps, it will resolve itself? At least that's what I always tell myself right before I start ripping something out... Well, on the bright side, you have recent learning (experience) regarding the whole "ripping out one-row buttonholes on a seed stitch background" thing... I know -- not funny :-(
ReplyDeleteBack away from the knitting....it's perfect, just the way it is!
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