Guys, I just cannot get on top of this project.

First of all I tried it with a yarn that was, frankly, a pain in the behind. I was trying to hold it double, even though it’s yarn on a cone, so was having to unravel balls of it to work from, then join more on as it ran out. The yarn is splitty by nature and holding double exacerbated that. And it didn’t feel nice in my hands.

I was also failing to follow the pattern and had made several mistakes by the time I took this picture:

I included it in a WiPs post, and some kind commenters recommended what I knew in my heart of hearts: follow the advice of Edwin Collins, rip it out and start again.

I bought new, cotton yarn (Drops Safran) and, while I was still holding double, it all seemed much easier. I did have a few false starts (three of ’em), but after those, the remake was whizzing along. I thought it’d soon be out of my hair. Never a great sign, when that’s how you feel about finishing a project – that you’re ‘getting rid of it’ rather than ‘finishing it’.

Now is perhaps a good time to note that a break from blogging meant a break from photographing my knits. This meant, in hindsight rather foolishly, a break from spreading out my knits and looking at them properly.

As I came close to finishing the second sleeve, and therefore the whole garment, I noticed that the raglans were completely uneven:

The right of the picture looks fine. The left of the picture decidedly does not. I unravelled the whole thing in very poor humour.

But now I’m looking at other people’s project pics on Ravelry and… I think that’s just how it looks? It’s hard to tell but it seems like at least one of those projects shows the raglans unevenly placed.

It’s for G, and I had them try it on more than once. It was a little neat, which I thought blocking would solve, but no sense of it being twisted around…

I’ve put the yarn in a time out. I don’t know if trying it again would be perseverance or madness. What do you think?