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Work in progress Wednesday - Strathendrick and a side order of hysteria

In general, Strathendrick is going well. I've done the increases for the underarms, and even though the idea was stressing me out, in reality it wasn't all that hard:

EXCEPT: the pattern calls for an extra increase at the beginning of the back, and the beginning of the front and the beginning of the back. At 10pm last night I notices that, to me, it looks like it should be at the end of the front and back.

I spent 30 minutes trying to work it out last night, I've messaged in the relevant  Ravelry thread, and I spent far too much time thinking about it when I was meant to be asleep last night. I'm sure it's something simple, but I need to get it right or the whole top of the shoulder will look like crap.  When you are as short as me, the hem of your jumper can be as messed up as you like, but everyone sees the tops of my shoulders.

I'm looking forward to sitting down with this and working it out. I'm pretty sure it's  the pattern that is the problem - someone else had a similar issue and the pattern has been updated for the larger sizes. But I've certainly never found a fault in a Kate Davies pattern before, and I'm knitting the same size as she wears. Once I work this out, it should be plain sailing on what has been an otherwise very enjoyable knit.


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  1. Svenneback09 May, 2021

    Hi! Do you remember how you did.the increases? I suppose you are not ment to only do the increases on one side of the front and one side of the back? Dont't you have to do them on both ends of the back and both ends of the front every time??
    Trying to read the pattern without really understanding...

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