Knitting help pleeease! I thought I was oh so bloody clever! :(

[Mummyteachmummy]

I decided I wanted to knit DD a cardi with her initial emblazoned on the back. I decided I could do this by simply taking a plain cardi knitting pattern, and freestyling the letter into the back.

The pattern for the shape I came up with is (miraculously!) fine, but the tension from the threads at the back where I've switched the two colours back and forth is disastrous - the whole back of the cardi is pulled into a pretty crappy rouche (sp?!)!

So what do I do? How is it actually supposed to be done? I can't stand to start again, and my thought is cutting the offending stretched across bits of wool at the back (and there are hundreds of little stretches across - the letter is 50 lines high) and tying them each off iyswim?

Is that going to work or will the whole thing just fall to bits? So gutted - DD has seen it in progress and is so excited, but there's no way I can sew it up in it's current state! :(

[Middleagedmotheroftwo]

What Footle said. Use more than one ball of the background colour so you don't have to weave it across the letter colour.

[Mummyteachmummy]

It's 49 stitches wide! I'll definitely look up intarsia for next time...

But what do I do NOW?! Can I do the cutting and tying off thing do you think?!

[Mummyteachmummy]

Oh, sorry, it's 49 stiches wide but obviously, being a letter, not in one big block; the individual sections of it are about 9 stiches wide. No idea if this is making any sense whatsoever, sorry...

[Mummyteachmummy]

Oh, and thank you both! Sorry, I forgot that bit in my grump about my FAILURE! :(

[RaisingSteam]

I would pull out and do with intarsia and separate balls. Footle is right. It will look masses better and be quicker. You'll have a few ends to darn in but everyone will be impressed with the result.

If you have enough yarn you could just re-start the back and only unravel if you run out later on.
good explanation here