Undoing the Wall Flower

I acted on my decision to frog the wall flower project. As I imagined it, the process should have been relatively easy, but in actuality it was more like an ordeal.

The size was about double this by the time I decided there was a need to change.

Intarsia knitting refers to a type of knitting that creates coloured blocks rather than smaller changes in colour done every stitch or two. In order to create the blocks separate balls of yarn are needed (see above). To insure there are no holes in the end results the knitter needs to twist one colour around the other on the wrong side of the work (Apparently this was something I seemed to have struggled with causing me to have to frog the thing in the first place.~~Who me upset by this, no I'm not upset~~ well maybe a little bit.) At any rate these tiny twists mean if you wish to rip your previously knitted intarsia work out, the twists need to be undone. This causes a great deal of stopping to twist the yarn every time there a colour change and then start ripping out again to the next colour change. It only took 3 hours to undo 50 rows of knitting. (Am I whining again, oh OK I'll stop.) No photos of this hot mess were taken. There were tiny and not so tiny balls of white and black yarn all over the place :-(

The Wall Flower Redo

So here we are now with a blank and white slate. The photo certainly makes it quite clear where I stopped frogging. See that fine line running across the work about one third of the way up from the bottom? Not my best work to say the least when it comes to picking up frogged stitches. But in this particular project all will work out because it is right at that line that the knitting will fold over the frame/support to hang it and the black double stitching begins. Perhaps I was planning ahead so far that I marked the spot clearly, sure, that's what I was doing, no not really but it sounds better don't you think?

All I need to do to complete the project is knit a row of 120 stitches 126 times; so far approximately 50 rows are complete. That will amount to 15,120 stitches. Then the duplicate stitch will be used in black to create the flower on to this white background. Simple really! I had hoped to have it completed by October, but I don't know what exactly happened to the month of September, it flew right by. At any rate, I'm back at it even if not on my self-imposed time line.

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