Dawn Brocco's Life & Design Blog

Every designer makes mistakes. Most of the time, they're small mistakes. Not me.

Last night, I finally was at the neck of the Kimono Fana - we're talking body done, sleeves and yoke done to the neck and I was binding off, so I could sew and cut the steek, then tackle the problem of the facing.

And I'm counting. The sts between the markers. And I'm 3 sts off on one sleeve. So I count all the decreases in each raglan line. OK, they're all the same. I count the sts put on holders at the underarm. They're all the same. Then I look at the sleeves, and a big deep inner groan begins to well up. Good Lord, I didn't do the sleeves on different amounts of sts, did I? And if so, how on earth did I do that?

The cuffs are the same, hmm. Then I count the reps just above the cuff. 3 sts decreased around, on ONLY 1 CUFF.

I Have To. Rip Out. Down to the raglan joining rnd and 1 sleeve to the cuff.

Serves me right. This is what I get for taking TOO long to finish a design. When I pick designs up after much time spent in waits-ville, there's too much more room for error. It's this limbo I've been in ever since listing the house again. All my energy, every thought, is about selling the house and Moving.

Part of me is unable to devote the proper amount of energy and time to designing that it requires. The other part of me thinks maybe I can, but am afraid if I take my eyes off the ball, this place won't get sold.

I don't know how I feel about this. I'd usually get thoroughly angry with myself. In the meantime, I've restarted the one errant sleeve, and have decided not to do a raglan again. I'm really gonna go out on a limb and try EZ's set-in square sleeve. But need to unearth a few books which are packed away, for reference.

The raglan was presenting a problem at the neck, anyway, which I was aware of before I worked it.. I didn't want to run the wide front band around the entire neck edge, which was rather large, I want a traditional snug-around-the-neck kimono neck band. I was considering binding off and seaming the raglan neck, but thought that would really be a desecration of a good raglan. But, sometimes, one needs to actually see it in front of you, before you can see if a solution is workable.

As I say to hubby when one dragster blows an engine part right off the line - Do Over!