unfinished skirt

It has been a bit of a crazy day today. I got the kids up and out the door, I went to work, then to the grocery store, then to school for set up for my art class, then home to cook dinner, and back to school for a meeting. Whew. No wonder I’m tired today! I did manage to get a photo of my unfinished skirt, though!

It is scrunchy and unblocked. You can also see the elastic that is almost all the way installed sticking out of the top. I really should finish it. (I know, I said that already.)

Close up of the cables.

It really should look better once it is blocked. Now I am questioning even sharing these photos! At least these before shots will reinforce the power of blocking.

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one step forward, two steps back

I have been working on the knitted skirt since I fell in love with the pattern in November but I have hit a bit of a snag.

I used a yarn with a different gauge and I made adjustments for width but I didn’t make any changes to the cable pattern and I think it’s too short. I was thinking of just adding extra ribbing at the bottom but Cookie pointed out that one of the nice things about the skirt is how much of it is cabled.

Instead of making a compromised fix on the length only, I’m going to pull it back to the beginning of the cables and switch to a bigger needle and also to add an extra plain row between the cables (also Cookie’s suggestion). I was regretting having to take all of my knitting out but then I remembered the advice that I always give to new knitters: if you want to be happy with your finished product you have to sometimes be willing to redo the whole thing sometimes.

Sad, but true.