Sweater of Doom
I finally have started working on the Sweater of Doom again. I think it was the six-degree overnight temperatures last night that inspired it. Currently, I'm working on the back panel, and I looked ahead in the instructions and have figured out I'm going to have to extrapoloate the exact set of instructions for the last 20 or 30 rows by hand because I got to skip over that part with the front panel due to the neck shaping making it a non-issue. Yes, I am a retard and actually hand-write out the instructions for every row because I'm pretty sure I won't be able to keep track of them all because they repeat at differing frequencies -- two panels cycle every six rows, a third at 17 rows, and a fourth at 24. There must be a program out there that lets you feed in the basic patterns and then it extrapolates the details out for you, but I have yet to find it.
I also looked ahead to the part regarding the making of the sleeves. The only sweater I've ever knitted before this one was sleeveless. It looks like I'm going to have to post an SOS on one of the knitting communities when I get to the sleeves because there's some tricky increasing which I can't quite understand the wording of, plus there's enough extra stitches that come out of the process that it ends up making extra panels which you are supposed to incorporate into the design, which I understand the basic theory of in a very abstract way, but when it comes to trying to envision the specifics of this, I just cannot see how it won't all become a horrible jumbled mess.
At that point I was so perplexed by the sleeves that trying to look ahead to how to finish the neck band made my brain seize up and exacerbated my nausea, so I think I'll just stick with contemplating the two hurdles of the back piece and the sleeves.
I just really want to finish it. I mean, for Christ's sake, I've been working on this thing for almost seven years now; it's gone beyond embarrassment, not to mention aggravation.
I also looked ahead to the part regarding the making of the sleeves. The only sweater I've ever knitted before this one was sleeveless. It looks like I'm going to have to post an SOS on one of the knitting communities when I get to the sleeves because there's some tricky increasing which I can't quite understand the wording of, plus there's enough extra stitches that come out of the process that it ends up making extra panels which you are supposed to incorporate into the design, which I understand the basic theory of in a very abstract way, but when it comes to trying to envision the specifics of this, I just cannot see how it won't all become a horrible jumbled mess.
At that point I was so perplexed by the sleeves that trying to look ahead to how to finish the neck band made my brain seize up and exacerbated my nausea, so I think I'll just stick with contemplating the two hurdles of the back piece and the sleeves.
I just really want to finish it. I mean, for Christ's sake, I've been working on this thing for almost seven years now; it's gone beyond embarrassment, not to mention aggravation.