Complications

I’m stalled on the black lacey cardigan.  I started it hoping to be able to wear it to a wedding on September 1st (I’m always cold at receptions).  I guess I was feeling a little overconfident and thought I could finish it even though I’m working on a number of other projects. I wasn’t counting on the vague instructions for managing the ever increasing lace repeats over the bias knit fronts.

Upon taking a closer look at my first front I’m not happy. 

• The two sets of lace patterns aren’t lined up the way they were on the back.  I thought I could live with that. 
• My gauge is possibly off and the v-neck shaping starts really low, like belly button low.  For the photo, I actually pinned a section of the shaped neckline vertically so it will act as a the closure of the sweater.  This stretches the rest a bit which might be okay – maybe. 
• Then when working on the reverse shaping for the other front, I noticed that I did three repeats of the horseshoe lace pattern instead of two at the top (see photo).  This too could probably be okay, but all these problems together are really bothering me.  (That coupled with having already ripped and reknit a number of times and I don’t want to ‘waste’ any more time with fixes that may or may not work. This was supposed to be a quick knit, not a huge distraction.)

On the weekend I resigned myself to the fact that it won’t be done by Saturday.  I’ve started a sleeve which is coming along nicely so far, but I’m not working with the single-minded focus required to finish this to wear before the weather gets too cold, much less for the wedding.

I’m pretty sure I’ll rip both fronts … I just need a plan of attack for the reknit.  I haven’t had much success googling this design to see if other’s are knitting it and their experiences.  Why doesn’t Vogue Knitting name their designs?  It would be so much easier to refer to them by name when talking to others and when trying to research them!