{"id":128,"date":"2009-03-26T10:42:42","date_gmt":"2009-03-26T15:42:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theknitgirllls.com\/?p=128"},"modified":"2009-03-26T10:42:42","modified_gmt":"2009-03-26T15:42:42","slug":"epic-ripdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/theknitgirllls.com\/index.php\/2009\/03\/epic-ripdown\/","title":{"rendered":"Epic Ripdown"},"content":{"rendered":"

So I decided to knit another of Cookie A’s patterns, Django<\/a>.\u00a0 I’m a huge Cookie fan – her socks are gorgeous and appear to be very intricate, but in most cases are a lot easier to knit than you’d think.\u00a0 I whipped out a second pair of Twisted Flower<\/a> during spring break – after gauge swatching carefully – and they turned out well:<\/p>\n

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so I figured Django would be a breeze.<\/p>\n

Well.\u00a0 To actually get gauge on these, I had to go down to a 1.5 needle and knit the sock very densely.\u00a0 Which isn’t bad, but paired with a lot of cabling and very dense fabric makes for sore muscles.\u00a0 Sore muscles lead to carelessness, which in my case leads to a very silly error on 6 stitches, which I didn’t notice until about 18 rows LATER.\u00a0 In the pic below (which is overexposed and a bit hard to see detail, but it was 10pm and I had no natural light to work with, so give me a break), you can see that about every six rows, there is a simple 2\/2 cable cross surrounded by nothing but stockingette.\u00a0 The cable crosses are supposed to be underneath<\/strong> each other, not connected.<\/p>\n

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A close up, but still a little blurry<\/p>\n

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So my choices were:<\/p>\n

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  1. Rip back 18-20 rows over a multitude of cabling and risk making it way worse that it was, and spending about 4-5 hours fixing it (including ripping and re-knitting)<\/li>\n
  2. Attempt the epic ripdown of only those six stitches for 18-20 rows and try reknitting them at the same gauge (about 1 to 1.5 hours). This still carried the risk of making it way worse than it was, in which case I’d still have to do #1 to fix the error<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    I decided to take a deep breath and try ripping down.\u00a0 I placed markers on all of the rows that required the cable crossover (every 6th row in this case), and away I went:<\/p>\n

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    Looks scary, doesn’t it?\u00a0 I’d never ripped down more than two rows before, so I had no real idea what I was doing.\u00a0 I was just lucky that most of the stitches were stockingette!\u00a0 After a very tense hour where I wasn’t sure if it was going to work, I ended up pretty pleased with the result:<\/p>\n

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    This red is impossible to photo without the glare (at least with a flash) but heres a better view:<\/p>\n

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    Success!\u00a0 I made it work, and with blocking you’ll never be able to tell there was an error! w00t!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    So I decided to knit another of Cookie A’s patterns, Django.\u00a0 I’m a huge Cookie fan – her socks are gorgeous and appear to be very intricate, but in most cases are a lot easier to knit than you’d think.\u00a0 … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[316,109,20,110],"class_list":["post-128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-knitting","tag-ripping","tag-socks","tag-w00tness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/theknitgirllls.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/theknitgirllls.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/theknitgirllls.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theknitgirllls.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theknitgirllls.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/theknitgirllls.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":129,"href":"http:\/\/theknitgirllls.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128\/revisions\/129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/theknitgirllls.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theknitgirllls.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theknitgirllls.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}