{"id":20431,"date":"2025-04-23T09:56:22","date_gmt":"2025-04-23T08:56:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=20431"},"modified":"2025-04-26T10:10:25","modified_gmt":"2025-04-26T09:10:25","slug":"daily_3704_-_re-doing_is_no_big_deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2025\/04\/23\/daily_3704_-_re-doing_is_no_big_deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily: 3704 &#8211; re-doing is no big deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many sweater knitting patterns suggest an even rate of decreases from just below the armhole to just above the wrist. On close-fitting garments, that often makes the sleeves too tight for me around the biceps. Instead I tend to knit straight until just above the elbow and only then start decreasing.<\/p>\n<p>That bit worked well this time, as expected, but I wasn&#8217;t happy with the decrease rate afterwards. Too steep. Rip it up and do it again.<\/p>\n<p>With a slightly thicker yarn and a slightly looser knit than I generally tend to choose, the cardigan almost knits itself. And when I change my mind, unravelling and re-doing a section is a piece of cake. With loose-ish stitches, there&#8217;s room for me to insert a thin cable needle in a row further down in advance, before I even start ripping it up. No need to painstakingly find and pick up the stitches afterwards. Re-knitting it takes an hour at most.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_4\/3704_sleeve_1.jpg\" class=\"x6y45\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_4\/3704_sleeve_2.jpg\" class=\"x6y45\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many sweater knitting patterns suggest an even rate of decreases from just below the armhole to just above the wrist. On close-fitting garments, that often makes the sleeves too tight for me around the biceps. Instead I tend to knit straight until just above the elbow and only then start decreasing. That bit worked well [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[767,18,784,768],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crafts-2","category-dailies","category-knitting","category-photography-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20431"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20435,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20431\/revisions\/20435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}