Do NOT Try This At Home
As I posted earlier, I forget when, I started Reynolds' "Swirl Pullover," even though I had been warned by Alert Readers that there's a problem with the directions and I needed to write and get corrections from the manufacturers. I figured, when I started out, that I could at least work the swirl part, and then use the corrections.
Well, I started the pullover, and I got the swirl done -- it went much more quickly than I'd guessed -- and then I googled the thing to see if I could find any helpful hints on the net, BUT the only person I could find on the net discussing the problems with the directions -- besides me, several times in the blog -- was on this review site (scroll down for the Swirl Pullover), and what the reviewer on this site says is that the pattern is difficult to follow, but not impossible.
Well.
So instead of waiting for my helpful corrections to arrive, I decided to go on ahead, and see if I could get through the directions, even though I'd been told very clearly by several people that there were dragons.
I was pretty happy for the first section of instructions after the swirl, as they were indeed very difficult to follow, but I was able to figure out what was meant, and I ended up with the right stitch count, so I figured I'd done that part right.
But the next section was not only even more difficult, but as it turned out impossible. There's no way that you can follow the directions and end up with the correct stitch count. I did the math. Several times, in several ways, trying various sorts of permutations of What The Pattern Might Possibly Have Meant.
So now I'm waiting for the corrections. Also, I'm wondering in which reality the person who said that the directions COULD be followed lives, cause it sounds like an interesting one, and I might like to visit.
It's sad that this is happening -- I'm not usually stuck, when patterns are messed up. I can usually fix them, or make something else up. But the construction of this pullover is so unusual that I can't do that -- I could conceivably have worked out such a structure from the beginning, but I can't work it out halfway through.
Hmm.
Now that I think of it, I might could do that very thing....
NO. Life is short, and mine is full. I'm going back to "Margaret Tudor" and "Queen Anne's Lace," both of which are nice and clear and working well.
Wore the "Cul-de-sac" vest yesterday. Love it. Just love it. Perfect for spring. Just as I thought.
Sure would like to get the "Swirl Pullover" done for spring, too. Darn.
(Now. If I took it off the needles and off the holders, and laid it out and worked out the dimensions left, and figured out the angle of the mitering, then I could conceivably plan out what's going on there on the bottom row with the decreases that can't get done if you're going to get the stitch count which you couldn't get anyway even if you left them off...)
(NO! Too short, too full. Need relaxation.)
(But oh, I do love a problem in logic and math...)
(NO!)
Well, I started the pullover, and I got the swirl done -- it went much more quickly than I'd guessed -- and then I googled the thing to see if I could find any helpful hints on the net, BUT the only person I could find on the net discussing the problems with the directions -- besides me, several times in the blog -- was on this review site (scroll down for the Swirl Pullover), and what the reviewer on this site says is that the pattern is difficult to follow, but not impossible.
Well.
So instead of waiting for my helpful corrections to arrive, I decided to go on ahead, and see if I could get through the directions, even though I'd been told very clearly by several people that there were dragons.
I was pretty happy for the first section of instructions after the swirl, as they were indeed very difficult to follow, but I was able to figure out what was meant, and I ended up with the right stitch count, so I figured I'd done that part right.
But the next section was not only even more difficult, but as it turned out impossible. There's no way that you can follow the directions and end up with the correct stitch count. I did the math. Several times, in several ways, trying various sorts of permutations of What The Pattern Might Possibly Have Meant.
So now I'm waiting for the corrections. Also, I'm wondering in which reality the person who said that the directions COULD be followed lives, cause it sounds like an interesting one, and I might like to visit.
It's sad that this is happening -- I'm not usually stuck, when patterns are messed up. I can usually fix them, or make something else up. But the construction of this pullover is so unusual that I can't do that -- I could conceivably have worked out such a structure from the beginning, but I can't work it out halfway through.
Hmm.
Now that I think of it, I might could do that very thing....
NO. Life is short, and mine is full. I'm going back to "Margaret Tudor" and "Queen Anne's Lace," both of which are nice and clear and working well.
Wore the "Cul-de-sac" vest yesterday. Love it. Just love it. Perfect for spring. Just as I thought.
Sure would like to get the "Swirl Pullover" done for spring, too. Darn.
(Now. If I took it off the needles and off the holders, and laid it out and worked out the dimensions left, and figured out the angle of the mitering, then I could conceivably plan out what's going on there on the bottom row with the decreases that can't get done if you're going to get the stitch count which you couldn't get anyway even if you left them off...)
(NO! Too short, too full. Need relaxation.)
(But oh, I do love a problem in logic and math...)
(NO!)
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