We hates it.)Ĭlearly, even though me, Joe, Megan and the computer calculator all feel that 9+2=11 this cannot be true since it doesn’t space the buttonholes (indicated by the yellow arrows above) anywhere near accurately and I wound up with and infuriating number of stitches left over. This was obviously mistake number four…though if anyone can see what is wrong with my math I’d appreciate the *&^%$#ing heads up. 11 seemed right, since the pattern for the buttonholes contains the intruction “Rib 9, cast off 2…rep”.
What I did was pick up more stitches (this seemed reasonable since I had too few…but knitting is seldom obvious) in a multiple of 11. The exact nature of mistake number four is a mystery. Nix that, and proceed rapidly to Mistake number four. The way that the stitches want to gather up before I have even started the button band are a terrible omen. Clearly, in the picture above I have not picked up enough. Then you must ignore that and pick up the suggested number of stitches. If you are determined to make Mistake number three Instructions like “knit until work measures 10cm” work fine, but since it will take a different number of rows to get to 10cm, the whole picking up thing is going to go down the dumper in short order. This by itself is not a mistake, but it leads to all sorts of things not working anymore. Having already made mistake number one…there is no reason not to make Mistake number two, which would be deciding to knit the pattern in a worsted instead of a DK.
If you hate picking up stitches, hate knitted on button bands and still pick this sweater and don’t adapt it for a sewn on button band, then you are stupid. Choosing a sweater with a knitted on button band.