• MissMimi said on Feb 24, 2008....

  Oh no!  oh skald!  How frustrating -- all that work!  I hope the yarn shop will take back the unused skeins of the wrong color.  {{{hugs}}}

• skald said on Feb 24, 2008....

  Mimi  I used the whole skein for the sleeve. lol Never mind. I will start again but not now. Luv (((((Hugs))))

• Mamie said on Feb 24, 2008....

  oh you must have patience beyond compare! That would send me right over the edge of reason!! Good luck with it and your pictures are fabulous as always!! thanks so much, mamie

• quietone said on Feb 24, 2008....

  I agree with mamie ~ I would have given up and rolled it all into a ball and said.....there a new toy for the cats!  No, I cannot see the difference in color in the picture.  Freyjas jumper fits her well, and looks very nice on her.  Good job skald. 

• mobil said on Feb 24, 2008....

  I can see the difference Skald, the sleeve looks to have a tiny bit of a yellow tinge to it, less white then the other bigger part.
   
  Cute little girl in the hat  haha, you must have a great disposition to go on with it like you are doing.

• pickersplock said on Feb 24, 2008....

  It came out beautiful.
  My Mom knits and chochets and she often complains about the same thing,
  something about differnet dye lots.  Even though the numbers match, if it came from a different dye lot, the colors may not match exactly.

• skald said on Feb 24, 2008....

  Mamie .  When I was younger I was very impatient. This would have made me quite crazy but thanks to the goodness or what ever, I have learned from my life. Now, I did not have much time at the computer as my son came and borrowed it from me. but in the meantime I started and I have finished one sleeve. Thanks Mamie
  Quiet.  I did not either notice the differnce until I had joined the other yarn to it and it was much lighter. Well, a ball for the cat serves a good purpose.lol  Yes,. I must say I am proud of Freyja's jumper and finally yesterday Þór wore his.
  Mobil.  Yes, my granddaughter is a cute little girl, thanks. You are right about the colors and when you add the other one to the sleeve one sees it very well. Thanks.
  Pickers.  That is also true and can be so frustrating, your mum is right. Thanks.
  

• uniquely-ironic said on Feb 24, 2008....

  How frustrating!  I think I might have cried or screamed if I had managed to knit so much and find out that it needed to be redone.  You do such beautiful work.
   

• skald said on Feb 24, 2008....

  Uniquely.  I think that I would have done some years ago too. Cried and screamed. Thanks :-)

• polarheart said on Feb 24, 2008....

  Dear Skald, you did this one your special Woman's Day?  I would have thought the family members should have taken you out for a treat?!!!?  I am so sorry to hear about the waste of your time on that sleeve :( I would have just cried.  I have done something similar whilst sowing once. . .sowed a wrong side and a right side together and then sat having to unpick the entire thing!!  Bwwaahhhhh :(
   
  I hope you had a lovely Woman's Day anyway :-) And Freya looks gorgeous :-)
   
  Love Polar

• Me-Myself&I said on Feb 24, 2008....

  well what you did on the front is great. *smile* yup, you have patience of a saint.....oh, your home that i see in the picture with Freyja is beautiful! clean too! take care ~see ya

• skald said on Feb 24, 2008....

  Polar.  Such a thing like thing like sowing the wrong side on that is something that could so well happen to me, because I never could sow.lol The Icelandic woman's day was forgotten here,lol  Pálmi phoned his sister Olla and I heard him say congratulations on your day. So I said to him, you congratulate your sister and not me., Ha? he said. It is the women's day. Oh is it. I was congratulating her because  her village team won a championship. Olla is a follower of the basketball team of her village. He said you don't congratulate me either on the men's day , oh no it is mostly on my birthday I said and that was that, we laughed.
  Polar thanks for your wonderful sms today, you are a good friend.
  

• moonriver said on Feb 25, 2008....

  my sister, who also knitted when she had more time, had this philosophy: "if the mistake is a just a slight difference in color, and undoing it will take up too much time, i will continue it anyway until the knitwear is finished. then i'll do another one and not repeat the same mistake."
  
  in any case, you show yourself to be a patient and perfectionist craftswoman. :-)
  
  

• soleme said on Feb 25, 2008....

  You one special person, full of talent and patience! Love the pictureof Freya and
  with her sweater.

• soleme said on Feb 25, 2008....

  I want to apologize for the typo's. I meant to type "You are one special person."

  And a space after picture.

  Soleme

• skald said on Feb 25, 2008....

  Moon  Yes your sister was right if it is only a slight difference no one will notice. But this was too much of a difference and the other grandmother of Sara, where Sara is being brought us, is a very good knitter and she sows well too. I would never let her see such a thing. lol
  Soleme.  Thnaks so much for your comments. :-) 

• dailyachesandpains said on Feb 25, 2008....

  Awe...Skald!  {{{HUGS}}}
   
  I was going to order myself a knitting kit for beginners...it's for 8 year olds, lol! 

• skald said on Feb 25, 2008....

  Daily. That is wonderful. Does not matter for how old it is. Once we start with what ever we do, we start easy. I once did the same I  bought cross stitch kit for children and I started. I was 30. I had done some when I was little and it is very clumsy. I have a thing that I made for my granny when I was 12 with big stitches. Well then I bought this and i started, soon I was doing complicated things and other stitches too, counting out and so on. Let me know how it goes will you (((((((((((((Hugs))))))))))))) 

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