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Moving On

Last week is behind me.  I worked hard and played over the weekend.  Now the new week is upon me and I need a plan, including my knitting.

A starry green kimono sweater
The green kimono is done.  Instead of doing the spider webs again (that would be so August for me) I decided to do something else.  Not being all that good at embroidery at the moment, I thought I'd be able to do stars.  I made a pattern, outlined the stars and thought I'd be able to figure out how to fill the space with some kind of embroidery stitch.  After several unsuccessful attempts, the stars were left unfilled, except for the orange button stars I found at Mom's recently.  I added to them the tiny stars I found this weekend, and viola a sweater is finished.

See on the right?  The black colour block has a problem. 
Now it is back to finishing the other WIPs waiting for me to pick them up.  It is time to get the flower wall hanging done.  As I pick it up to see where in the project I had left it, I just shake my head.  Do you see those stray black stitches in the sea of white on the right?  Obviously they don't belong there all alone like that.  The work must have played a nasty little trick on me because I left it unattended for so long.  Why there just can't be anyway I actually knit this and didn't see it, am I right? (Paul, please, it has now become one of your jobs to ask me each evening if I've actually looked at my knitting before I set it down.)  Had I stopped some time ago to look at the piece I wouldn't have to decide what to do next.  (As I've said before I don't need much to entertain me, I provide all types of entertainment for myself.)  Now what to do to fix this:
  1. Pull everything out to the mistake which means pulling out about a third of the project.
  2. Act as if this was really the design and hope no one else thinks those stranded stitches look out of place.
  3. Try to make sure once the accent coloured I-cord is made it is perfectly stretched over these stitches to hide them.
  4. Duplicate stitch over the white yarn with black in hopes it will hide the stitches well enough to not be detected.
  5. Remove the errant yarn by cutting the work and then sew the live bits back together using the kitchener stitch.
I do contemplate my options.  Doing #5 means cutting yarn mid-project, something which can create a great deal of fear for most knitters, this one among them.  The kitchener stitch is called the grafting stitch which would make perfect sense for this situation.  But before I go for the drastic cutting method I decide to do the less risky duplicate stitch first.

The duplicate stitch uses a tapestry needle to embroider over the Vs in the stockinette stitch.  One does not need to cut anything and if it works, it is the easiest and safest way to fix this mistake.  And since I am covering white yarn with black, it just might solve my problem.

Fixed!!!
I think it worked.  Yeah!  The kitchener stitch, it lives on to be used another day.  Now to finishing this project before it joins the Blue Boy Sweater as one of my least favorites.

                                
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