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! :(
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Mummyteachmummy · 27/07/2014 00:28
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