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Back on Track

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It has been a bit of a journey finding replacement yarn for my Halloween Cats sweater. As mentioned in my last post, a couple of the accent colors were too similar in value to the main color for the sweater, so the the colorwork was not working. So first I ordered what looked like a lighter green and orange from the same yarn line and then waited for them to show up.

Still way too close, and also what looked like orange in the photos is really more of a gold. So the next step was to take some of the lilac yarn and just go to a local yarn store and figure something out. I wound up at Fibre of earlier post fame. They didn’t have much in sport weight, but did have a ton of fingering, which of course you can just hold double.

Sold! I went with a lighter orange and a deeper green than previously. For the pattern I had already knitted, I just duplicate stitched over what was already there. It’s the lazier option, but I am OK with that.

The lighter orange still doesn’t have that much contrast, but I think it pops against the background enough that it works. So anyway, back to working on the yoke!

This also shows another alteration I made – at the center of the back, I reverse the direction the cats are facing so that they are facing toward each other at the front center. The striped section in the middle is where I will cut the steek, so that’s not going to be there when it’s done.

What do you usually do when you get pretty far along in a pattern and decide you want to change something? Rip it and redo, fake it over (like I just did here), or decide to just leave it as is?

24 thoughts on “Back on Track”

  3. Your sweater’s coming along nicely. I generally rip back when I want to change something. Sometimes I just complete the object and donate it to a charity. Mostly, I try to make enough test swatches that I can avoid a mid-knit crisis.

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  5. I am generally not a fan of duplicate stitch, so if that is the fake involved I will usually rip and re-do. However, it does depend on how much ripping back there is. At the point you were, I would have re-done (to avoid the duplicate stitch) but if there had been much more progress I would have just given in and faked it. 😉

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  6. I have struggled with color decisions so many times! I am torn between subtle and crisp contrast, and then I mess up and get a knit with a combination of the two. I like what you ended up with and the sweater looks so cute!

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  7. I’m a ripper! Mostly. But right now I’m resisting that, because I don’t want to start this shawl all over again. It’s not important for this piece; everything is fine, it’s just an aesthetic option for something. Nope! The finish line is in sight!

    I love that you mirrored the cats. I would have, too!

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