Bad Knitting: Comic cardie

Sunday 21 December 2014

Comic cardie

Some time ago, I knitted the most disastrous cardigan in the history of knitting. Worse, I had struggled with the awful wool for about two years since buying it, so it was a double disaster. Recently, while clearing out and rearranging my wooden box, I came across the remnants of this yarn and starting knitting a jumper I really fancied in a very old knitting magazine. I had enough to complete the back and since it seems to be turning out all right, I think it's time to pull out the comic cardie and start reknitting. Before I do that, I got my daughter to take a picture of me wearing the cardie - sorry, it turned out rather dark and blurred, but then it is the winter's solstice today with no light in the sky at all - very gloomy and dull (though the gloom does seem to have turned a strange shade of pink now that it's 4pm and time for tea...)

What you can't see in the picture are the sleeves which hang about a six inches below my fingertips and the fact that the cardie as about three times wider than I am. Also, the hood is somehow too short in front. The knitting itself is crap beyond belief - honestly, I followed the pattern down to the letter. I used the correct needles and tension, followed the sizing and THIS is what I ended up with - a gigantic saggy brown monstrosity.

If it wasn't so funny, I might cry....though I think I might have cried at the time and then shoved it at the back of the Disaster Drawer for two years. Since then, I've concentrated on knitting things well, using lovely yarn in lovely colours and feel much more confident. But this really knocked me for six at the time....