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ugh and double ugh
2008 @ 9:04 pm
I don’t know if I mentioned this, but when I started my Cobblestone Pullover I neglected to add in the side detail–two panels of purl stitches under the arms. About three inches in I realized my mistake and dropped 15 stitches on either side, reversed them, and moved on. Turns out I placed one of the panels a little too far forward. Ugh. Now I have far too many stitches across the back of the sweater and far too few in the front. Exactly 15 stitches too many and too few, to be exact.
Stitches on the needle show where my panel should be.
So, double ugh is the fixing it part. I began to correct by dropping stitches and pulling them back up, just as I had done in the beginning, but it looked pretty bad. I am not sure blocking would help, but maybe? Or perhaps once they are all finished they will look even?
If anyone has experience in the area of dropping and reversing a large group of stitches, please help! I would rather not rip the entire sweater. Of course I will if I have too–I’m a year ahead of schedule on this one, after all 
Then again, maybe it won’t be so bad to be bigger across the back–should I just keep going?
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are they just a little wonky right at the knit/purl transition? it looks like it in the pic. if so, i believe that blocking will help.
Oh, I know exactly what you mean. For some inexplicable reason, the dropped/laddered up sts look bigger, droopy and wonky, right? (and not just the st at the border). It doesn’t make sense, and yet there it is!
I’ve only done this on blocks of 4 or 6 sts, and blocking kinda helped…
i am a big ‘mistake’ knitter and a bigger believer in blocking to fix stuff. i think you might be okay with a really good soak and shape and then you would not have to rip so much progress. could be wrong…hope i am not.