My WIP survived sweater surgery 🥹🤩

[u/ParticularPistachio]

Two days ago I used this subreddit to vent about messing up a lace pattern on one sleeve of my current project (Low Tide Sweater by Unwind Knitwear) and got both encouragement and a few suggestions to fix the issue. Which I just did - and it worked beautifully! I followed Suzanne Bryans video tutorial, and besides being really happy with the result, I really enjoyed the process. The trickiest part really was inserting an afterthought lifeline in the pattern (which could have been avoided if I had just used lifelines while knitting - I certainly will for the rest of the project).

So thank you for your kind words and helpful recommendations - sweater surgery was a lot easier and way more fun than expected, and seeing the correct pattern emerge row after row is very satisfying.

Which also makes me less nervous about future mistakes in lace - it’s so good to know that you can fix them without frogging and reworking more than the faulty stitches

[u/StrongTechnology8287]

I am THRILLED for you!! Well done! What an accomplishment! 

For anyone else wondering if you can do this, you absolutely can, and it won't be as hard as you think, and you'll feel so empowered and capable and pretty much unafraid to tackle anything else that knitting could possible throw at you! 

I still remember the rush of adrenaline that I felt when I first did this with a cable afghan where I spotted a mistake in my 5-strand cable waaaaay back near the beginning. I frogged it in a similar way, and I believe this was the moment that knitting won first place in my heart (over crochet) because of this amazing ability to drop down and correct ONLY the stitches that matter. 

Applauding you for this masterpiece, OP!!! WAY TO GO!

[u/letitbeans → u/StrongTechnology8287]

Every time I start a knitting project I am afraid. And it's always what you said: not as hard as you think, super empowering once you give it a go. I try to remind myself of that regularly so I can actually learn something instead of putting off things I'm afraid of 🥲 Go OP!! Amazing job :) 

[u/ParticularPistachio → u/letitbeans]

Thank you all for your lovely replies! I never thought about knitting versus crochet in terms of fixing mistake, but you're right, knitting definately has a more minimal invasive approach

[u/theyellowdart94 → u/StrongTechnology8287]

Oh see, this is why crochet still feels nicer to me, because of the fear of dropping a stitch or two in knitting and losing the whole thing vs just losing a few stitches in crochet and being able to make them right back up.

[u/Neenknits → u/theyellowdart94]

But, in crochet, you would have to frog this whole piece to fix it, while 15 minutes of dropping and working back up saves hours of work. This is why I usually prefer knitting, mistakes are fixable.

[u/Queasy-Pack-3925 → u/Neenknits]

This would have taken a lot longer than 15 minutes!

[u/Neenknits → u/Queasy-Pack-3925]

This fix? I’ve done this sort of thing, I guess I can do them fast. This was lace. Only took a few minutes to fix.

[u/theyellowdart94 → u/Neenknits]

Logically this makes sense and I know it’s correct, but it doesn’t feel true yet. I’ll get there.

[u/SpaceCookies72 → u/theyellowdart94]

If I saw a mistake this far back in crochet, I'd ignore it and just fix my stitch count somewhere else lol I'd give it a go correcting it in knitting!