Why is it that the first sweater went so well, but now that I am writing the pattern as I go, sections of the second one have been reknit so many times I am losing track?!?
Last night I tore out the 150, 158, 146 yoke stitches 3 times to get to 160. Maybe the STARGATE and BATTLESTAR repeats were not the best choice for TV watching while knitting stranded patterns? At any rate, I am dabbling with using new tools, so my efforts have drifted into a new experimental zone.
My best buddy Dee came over this past week and sat me down with Excel and we hammered out pattern repeats for the Faroese Shawlet, which is a finished pattern, but I needed to see how it all worked. And it does, as long as you input the right formulas in the right boxes, keep careful word notes on what you are doing, and are as careful as you link back to already formatted boxes. Good enough.
Well, doing it on my own (4 hours worth of figuring and data entry, by the way) landed me with a sheet of numbers for this Wee Nordic Sweater in size 6 months, which I faithfully plugged into the pattern to see how they worked.
Obviously, I goofed somewhere.
Back to the calculator and Excel to rethink what I did. I can see that it will be great number crunching accuracy backup once I get more familiar with it.
