A tale of woe...
This was done on my Brother 950i machine, using a garter carriage for the fancy back panel.
Firstly I'd decided to buy one 1500g cone instead of three 500g cones as it was cheaper. This meant, as it's very fine one-ply, that I had to wind off "cakes" on a wool winder so I could knit it three strands together. No problem, just takes time to wind it. BUT when knitting, once the "cakes" got used a bit (taking yarn from the centre) I kept getting knots and tangles, so I had to watch it carefully whilst knitting.
The machine decided to go wrong part way up the back panel so ended up taking a bit of it apart and lubricating it-successfully.
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Then ! decided on a different pattern for the back anyway.
Got it all done, then found that dratted back panel was shorter than all the rest of the cardi (that panel took about five hours of the garter carriage going continuously and this was the second attempt) so I decided I could steam and press and stretch it - kinda worked.
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Sewed it all up on my new Hague linker.
I then found that the garter stitch hems all flipped up and the button bands flipped in, and the back seams need to be pressed cos they wrinkled a bit.
This is acrylic yarn - have you tried pressing acrylic? It doesn't like it. I knew it wouldn't but thought I could get away with it. I didn't did I?
Oh well, I'm wearing it now!
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