I've been a bad knitter. I broke all of the cardinal rules, and now I'm paying for it.
1. I didn't check gauge
2. I "eyeballed" rather than measuring
3. I knit merrily away w/o really looking at my piece in progress, so as to catch my mistakes early on.
I am (was) working on a second Paris Loop for my mother. I love my first one. I cast on and knit away. I made one a year ago so the second one should turn out the same, right? Wrong. My second piece is almost 5 inches longer and at least 5 inches wider. My gauge is significantly looser (8 sts/4" versus 10sts/4"). Although my knitting group thought the second piece was cute, the difference between the two garments (the first one actually being cute, and the second one looking sort of like the drape you wear at a hair salon" was astounding when I tried them on one after another. So I'm frogging it and will begin again. I think I'm going to make a hat before I start again. I need some more knitting satisfaction.
Whenever I try to make clothing I spend more time ripping than I do knitting. I don't want to have to be a careful knitter, and I pay for it. Time for me to buckle down and pay more attention.
Grrr.
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