{"id":263,"date":"2004-05-13T20:35:04","date_gmt":"2004-05-13T20:35:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/wordpress\/?p=263"},"modified":"2004-05-13T20:35:04","modified_gmt":"2004-05-13T20:35:04","slug":"a-terrible-disgrace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/?p=263","title":{"rendered":"a terrible disgrace"},"content":{"rendered":"

Let me tell you the story of Grace<\/a>, a sweet little sweater that innocently fell into the wrong hands. Very wrong hands.
\nThe Good:
\n– The decision to use Lion Brand Imagine, a very modestly priced acrylic\/mohair blend, was a wise one. You only need two skeins!
\n– Remember the grossly sloping sides on the lower front? Well, I frogged and knit more gradual slopes, and the front pieces matched up just fine and dandy
\n– Silvia<\/a> made a really cute Grace
\nThe Bad:
\n– Gauge! AGH! Can’t! Get! Gauge! To! Save! My! Life! Getting gauge is pretty important for a multi-sloped-edge sweater such as Grace
\n– Really dreadful job at seaming together the pieces, plus a lot of my stitches came out rather deformed
\n– After spending the entire evening seaming the front pieces together and attaching the front to the back, then knitting the garter stitch neckband, I was ready to knit the armhole edging. I pulled the thing on over my head to see where to put the armholes and noticed that the neckline plunged. It didn’t plunge sexily like Silvia’s; no, it drooped down near my bellybutton! The upper front pieces were WAY TOO LONG.
\nThe Ugly:
\n\"grace<\/a>
\n(It looks way more ridiculous on, but I couldn’t bring myself to photograph it. I did mark the approximate navel location, though)
\nSo what’s to become of Grace? Who knows. I was going to throw it in the trash (I don’t think the recycling truck will accept it), but I suppose there are some other options:
\n– Peter could use it as a scrubbie for washing his boat or car
\n– It’s pretty bright, so maybe it could double as a reflective safety vest
\n– No, I can’t really give it away, because I don’t know anyone who is 7 feet tall who would wear it. Also, I did a poor knitting job, and it would be too embarrassing to gift it
\n– Frog it (though do you KNOW what a pain it is to rip out fuzzy yarn?) and try again in the fall<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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