So I worked on the bolero while I was away last week. I wanted to travel light, so I copied my chart into my smaller notebook, but in words instead of images.
Last night I thought I was ready to piece the whole thing together, or at least block it so I can start on the final trim pieces, and decide if I’ll do lace or just garter stitch.
Do you see what I see? Are you thinking what I’m thinking? How can the back be so much shorter than the fronts??


And this sleeve? It’s way too small for the arm hole! What did I do wrong?


The gauge is fine here, looks spot on.


That’s not right.


Sleeve fits the armhole on the back. What happened?
I dug out the charts that I made from the original pattern and discovered several problems. In addition to my gauge being too loose on the fronts, the chart is a little off. There are too many rows before the armhole decreases, and too many rows after also. I must have been distracted while I was working on the chart. In fact, I am sure I was, because it was the night before my vacation and that’s what was on my mind, not my chart.
Then when I transcribed the chart into words before my business trip, I again messed up. I miscounted some of the decrease rows, adding even more rows. What the heck?
Anyway, I’ve ripped back to the beginning of the fronts and have them both on the needle again, ready to follow my corrected directions. You would think that after knitting this four times, I would have figured it out, but luckilly the pieces are small and portable.
Which brings up another topic… When you attend a proffesional conference, is it acceptable to knit while attending lectures? What about the keynote speeches, lunches, breaks, etc? Personally, I think anything to get me through the keynote speech is a plus, they usually go just about 30 min too long and the whole audience is squirming to get off the uncomfortable chairs by the last 20 minutes. In the dark, I knit during the keynote. At least I wasn’t as rude as some people who walked out on one guy. They kept bailing, man after woman while the guy was talking. Hey, I was bored too, but that’s just rude. During lectures, I didn’t knit, but I did while waiting for the guys to set up projectors and the like. What else is there to do? Anyone have a different opinion?