WIP Wednesday: Yellow Vintage Cardigan

I was trucking along, finally I had the desire to get some knitting done on this cardigan. I started it almost a year ago and I was ready to get it off the needles. It came to the time for me to measure my front piece to see if I was almost done, how much longer I had to go before starting the next side of the front. "Cool, I've already knit four inches, so I just had three more to go." That’s when I realized, “wait… did I forget to do the neckline shaping? NOOOO!!!” I did, indeed, forget the neckline shaping. I went through all of the three stages of grief:

Stage 1: I should probably just start the whole thing on fire and pretend like it didn't happen

For about a good half hour, I thought seriously about scrapping the whole thing. Maybe even throwing the thing in the fire pit. I hadn't put a lifeline in and didn't want to go through the hassle of either trying to put in a reactive lifeline, or ripping it back and trying to pick up the stitches.

Stage 2: Pretend it was intentional

After talking myself out of throwing the whole thing in the fire pit, I decided it really wasn't that big of a deal and I'd just continue on with no neckline shaping. But the little voice in the back of my head kept repeating "are you sure this is what you want?" Until it was screaming "ARE YOU SURE THIS IS WHAT YOU WANT?!" Until finally…

Stage 3: Rip back and fix it

Yep, so, in the end I decided I needed to actually rip out those four inches and do the neck shaping. Since I didn't have a proactive lifeline, I had to do my best to put in a reactive lifeline. It was a little difficult with the yarn overs and the decreases and I did flub up a bit, but I still managed to not drop a single stitch.

So, are you happy you did that?

Nope. I think the neck shaping looks stupid and idiot me didn't learn from my past mistake and I didn't put a lifeline back in after all that trouble. Soo..., the neckline is staying how it is. I'm sure someone with more experience with different neckline shapes would have been able to foreseen themselves not liking the shape, but you don't know what you don't know until you know. So, I'm just taking this as a learning experience.

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