That's Knitter with a Capital "K"

The mistake... a cable going the wrong way. Not noticed until the vest was blocked and sewn together.


The solution? A little surgery. A cut in a spot that I figured would be the easiest to graft. A safety string for the semi live stitches (the stitches "shouldn't" pullout in this direction, but let's be safe rather than sorry, eh?)


Pulled down to where the cables crossed the wrong way, put back on the needles.


Knit away, making sure the cables are going in the right direction.


Now I just have to graft the close the cut area. This wasn't as easy as I expected. I'm fairly comfortable grafting, until I realized that I had never grafted purl stitches. It took "several" atttemts (and a few choice "words").


The patient after the surgery is completed. Might be a little scarring, but I'm hoping that the sloppy looking stitches will block out. I did wet the area, but I think I'll do a complete soak and spin.

All in all, I do feel that I've moved from knitter to Knitter doing this. I also must admit that I probably wouldn't have bothered if a: it wasn't smack center front. b: wasn't a gift c: if I wasn't experienced grafting d: if I wasn't cocky (which is probably what got me the mistake in the first place).

So it can be done. I do think that performing surgery on wool would be easier, but all in all, I feel that it was worth the work and I'm much happier.

Well, I still have to weave in the ends from the cut and the grafting. Then a soak and spin before it gets wrapped an put under the tree.

oh, and there's only 12 days left til Christmas.