After weeks of knitting this sweater, I was just finishing up the right front and suddenly, the little nagging niggle at the back of my mind burst and I realized I'd made a critical mistake. There were 7 rows in the pattern that were knit on the purl side. I had purled on both sides.
It wasn't the kind of mistake that GLARES at you, no, it was one of those mistakes that keeps winking at you from the shadows. Just a niggle naggle you catch out of the corner of your eye. Would it have gone un-noticed? It might have, but the moment I realized what I'd done, I was stunned and ready to cry. Mom kept saying nobody would notice. It might actually have gone un-noticed, at least by most people. BUT I WOULD HAVE KNOWN it wasn't right. It would have eaten at me in the wee hours of the night. I made a big, big mistake.
Just as I was nerving myself to frog the whole dadgum thing a light snapped on in the back of my mind. I could use the ribber tool from my knitting machine to fix it. To fix them. I could undo each wrong row and make it right.
I'm doing that now. See pictures. ;-) I'm happy now. And we like me happy. ;-)
The top picture is what it should look like. The rest of the pictures are the repairs made by taking out the stitch from the top of the knitted fabric and unlatching it down to the bottom ribbing. The last two pictures are using the latch tool to "knit" the stitch back to the top. It's not quite perfect, but I can live with it. Leaving the mistake would have driven me around the bend.
Toodles
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