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How long could it possibly take to knit a cap sleeve slightly cropped sweater with color work in the yoke?\u00a0 A very long time if you go by my\u00a0Lovebirds<\/a>\u00a0sweater.\u00a0 Of course, knitting the yoke 2 1\/2 times didn’t help!\u00a0 Here’s the saga of my Lovebirds.<\/p>\n

I saw this pattern on Ravelry and loved the original color way, which you can see\u00a0here<\/a>.\u00a0 I went out and bought the exact same yarn.\u00a0 (I already knew that I liked knitting with Spincycle’s Dyed in the Wool.)\u00a0 After knitting most of the yoke — this is a top down sweater — I didn’t love how it looked.\u00a0 The Sunset Strip color way was simply too yellow for me.\u00a0 Yellow is one of those colors I just can’t wear easily.<\/p>\n

Here’s a photo taken after I had started to rip it out.\u00a0 I was much further along.\u00a0 There’s nothing wrong with the color; I just wasn’t happy with it on me.<\/p>\n

\"Original<\/p>\n

I put Lovebirds aside for a number of months and then discovered a color of Spincycle — Midsommar — that was similar to Sunset Strip but had more pink than yellow in it.\u00a0 I wanted the hearts to pop and so I used some Spincycle Dyed in the Wool in the Devilish Grin color for those.\u00a0 (It was leftover from my\u00a0knitted clock<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I started over.\u00a0 I finished the color work.\u00a0 I separated for the sleeves.\u00a0 One of the design options for the body of the sweater is to add cables.\u00a0 As I was about to start the first cable row, I realized that in my size the center cable was not going to line up with the row of hearts that finishes the color work.\u00a0 Moreover, now that I was looking at it more closely, I realized that none of the motifs lined up down the center as they had on the pattern model.\u00a0 Was it me?\u00a0 Had I screwed up?\u00a0 I looked at some of the other finished sweaters.\u00a0 No — it wasn’t me.\u00a0 I had assumed the motifs would line up on all sizes and had been so busy knitting away I hadn’t noticed that they were off.\u00a0 (I do not have a photo of what the sweater looked like at this point.)<\/p>\n

Let me say that there is nothing wrong with the other sweaters I looked at.\u00a0 The overall pattern is happy and fun and the finished sweaters looked great.\u00a0 But as longtime readers know, Susan and I are perfectionists.\u00a0 I wanted my motifs to line up!<\/p>\n

I couldn’t bear to start completely over for a third time.\u00a0 My solution:\u00a0 rip out to just before I separated for the sleeves, then shift the sleeve placement so that the patterns lined up the way I wanted.\u00a0 No problem — except that this is a top down sweater that uses short rows to raise the back neck.\u00a0 If I simply moved the sleeves, I’d end up with the neck short rows draped over one shoulder.<\/p>\n

I decided to cut off the yoke above the color work.\u00a0 I found the new center of the front and placed the sleeves accordingly.\u00a0 Then I re-knit the short rows and neck ribbing from the bottom up.<\/p>\n

\"A<\/p>\n

The removed original neckline<\/em><\/p>\n

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Checking to see whether the motifs are lining up and the short rows are working<\/em><\/p>\n

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New neckline finished and knitting the body<\/em><\/p>\n

It worked!<\/p>\n

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