The Hanks Question of the Week
This week includes a poll, too, which you can vote in either before or after you read the question (but you can only vote once).
As far as Rogue goes...
Total Votes: 0
Rip the sleeves out and fix them, then you can wear it after using it as a shop model.
0% (0)Leave the sleeves too small and use Rogue as a shop model forever.
0% (0)You should give Rogue to me, hee hee hee.
0% (0)Have you ever heard that little voice in the back of your head when you’re crafting? The one that says “hey, bonehead, you’re doing this wrong, and if you listen to me you can fix it before it gets out of control”? The one that you usually ignore?
Yeah.
I’ve been stuck on Rogue for about six months now. I messed up the first sleeve and frankly the thing is so skinny even Barbie couldn’t get it around her wrist. I have a choice: rip it out and redo it… or do the second sleeve deliberately incorrectly to match the first, almost finished, incorrect sleeve. Then use Rogue as a shop model and never get to wear it, even though I’m knitting it out of Malabrigo and it is almost too lovely to be legal. I really don’t know which way to turn with this, probably because I’ve been sitting on it so long I’m feeling incredibly guilty.
How do you deal with things like that? Plod through? Rework? Give away so you never have to look at it again? Bag it up and leave it in the back of the closet? Tell me what you do with your problem projects! (ahem, assuming that some of you actually have problem projects, and I’m not just alone out here in “do it wrong” wasteland...!)
Posted by Lorena on 12/31 at 09:02 AM in Question of the Week
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Rework it to fit YOU! (You only have to rip back one sleeve, after all.) You've invested so much time already, and so much about it is right, it would be a real shame if you never got to wear such a lovely piece.
Posted by Jane D. on December 31, 2007 at 10:45 AM | #
I second what Jane D. said. You want something you can WEAR - not look at with painful memories...
Posted by Betharoopie on December 31, 2007 at 10:51 AM | #
I knit a beautiful sweater out of DK alpaca for a friend. I followed directions to a T... but the neck, despite multiple bind off strategies, still ended up too tight.
It would have required an ungodly amount of reknitting to make it work. So, I put a button at the neckline (on the side, under the band) and sewed a ribbon facing along the shoulder seam on the same side and put in a couple of hooks and eyes. It was all I could think to do. But, even though it is a lovely sweater, I still wish it was "right".
For the sleeves, I vote: reknit! It is a zen thing. Unless you don't like the sweater. Then make it a model and be done with it!
It would have required an ungodly amount of reknitting to make it work. So, I put a button at the neckline (on the side, under the band) and sewed a ribbon facing along the shoulder seam on the same side and put in a couple of hooks and eyes. It was all I could think to do. But, even though it is a lovely sweater, I still wish it was "right".
For the sleeves, I vote: reknit! It is a zen thing. Unless you don't like the sweater. Then make it a model and be done with it!
Posted by Mary on December 31, 2007 at 11:13 AM | #
I say rip the sleeve and re-knit. It's rogue, that thing is too pretty to not be able to wear. It can be a shop model when you're wearing in the shop 
Posted by Ducky on December 31, 2007 at 11:47 AM | #
you will be annoyed every time you look at it. Rip out the sleeves and use it as a vest or store model!
I frog everything I am annoyed with because I never enjoy it as much as something that really
worked out!
I frog everything I am annoyed with because I never enjoy it as much as something that really
worked out!
Posted by Laura on December 31, 2007 at 12:26 PM | #
It's only a sleeve! You should totally riiiip it. If it makes you feel better, I finished Wicked and it is too short, the pocket is ridiculously too small and my bind off is too loose. (Yes, I complain that my bind offs are too loose.) Anyhoo, I ripped over 500 stitches last night because I was not going to have that thing live in the drawer. I'm back to knitting and hope to have a beautiful sweater soon.
Posted by jacquieblackman on December 31, 2007 at 12:56 PM | #
Aww, I know it sucks, but rip it. You don't have to pick it right back up and start knitting again, but once you get the ripping done, at least it'll be ready when you are. Is that all you have left to knit on it? If there's anything else you can finish up/work on to maybe put it back in your happy place instead of the sleeves... hahaha. Or else just rip it, maybe put it away for a few more weeks, then go back to work on it? It's such a beautiful sweater, if you do all that work and just leave it hanging in the shop its entire life, won't you be totally annoyed everytime you see it? 
(PS - how does it look in the Malabrigo? Rogue is one of my long-term want-to-do projects and I'm not yet sure what yarn I want to do it in...)
(PS - how does it look in the Malabrigo? Rogue is one of my long-term want-to-do projects and I'm not yet sure what yarn I want to do it in...)
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