Shrinking and Thinking
Well... good news and bad news... the good news is that I got the halter top seamed up and that my husband's first words when he saw the front were "Oh! I like that!".
The bad news? The back is hopelessly too wide. I probably shouldn't have blocked it before seaming it. So now it is back on my blocking board kind of bunched up and wet, and I'm hoping that the ribbing will pull things back in enough to make it better.
Otherwise... it's going to be ribbing all the way across the back and I'm gonna be doing a whole lotta frogging. Bummer.
I think to make myself feel better I am going to swatch my Giotto....yum!
Oh dear ,that's a shame.I know how much you wanted to wear it to the fibre festival.You could resort to elastic... but you know & I know that you're going to re-knit the back ,or ,at least,the top 3-4 inches of the back :-[
It will be fawhen it's finally done.Bet you look gorgeous in it & the colour really suits you.
My sister-in-law just knit this up for her mother. There isn't a gap in the back, but it does "bunch up" in rolls (kind of hard to explain). I think ribbing is probably the way to go for a closer fit. Bummer!