Well. Here it is, the back of the sweater…
Remember how I said that I was going to take the sides of the sweater in, and do real tapering for the waist on the front of the sweater? Well, I had my brother come by for a fitting (I know, a luxury we don’t all have for christmas presents) and realized that the sweater was 36 STITCHES too big at the waist. 18! That would be a lot of bulk to have dangling off of the inside of your sweater. That would be a visible representation of my laziness that would be forever glaring me in the face - not laziness in making my own yarn, or knitting my own fabric, but laziness of pretending that after all that work, 36 stitches of fabric dongling around inside of a sweater is no big deal. Then deciding that no one would notice, even myself. Its not even a complicated pattern for crying in the mud.
So, last night, I frogged it. Justin’s opinion “You can’t hide that much fabric, you wouldn’t be able to live with yourself!” pushed me over the edge. So, I frogged not just the back, but the little bit of front too, because I had already gone past the point of tapering. Frogging the whole thing took about 10 minutes. That is roughly 1/10th of the time it took to knit it. Remarkable. Read the complete Post.