It is harder to create than to destroy. And it’s often harder to repair than to create.
Repair work is harder because it doesn’t give you a clear path to stroll down. You have to figure out the problem, decide how to get through it and then clear your own way.
And it’s harder psychologically (at least it is for me) because you’re doing work over that had already been done… just to end up with a thing that is closer to what it once was, but not something new and exciting.
I love this sweater, though, and it’s lasted three or four winters of being my favorite sweater… so now I hope it will last a few more.
It’s my version of Hermione’s sweater from the Deathly Hallows movie, the reverse stockinette and the cabled button band caught my attention as soon as they appeared on screen. I cobbled together the pattern for it by consulting a combination of Megan Murray’s Of Hallows and Horcruxes and screenshots from the movie. I’m pretty sure the yarn is Briggs & Little Heritage, which I really loved working with. It’s a little scratchy at first, but its squishy springy texture really makes this sweater light and cozy.
It’s held up really well over the years with minimal pilling, but the sleeve edges get a lot of friction and the yarn just wore right through. I put off the repair for months, but in the end it wasn’t that bad. I decided to add one extra round of knitting with fresh yarn before doing a new bind off, since that should give the more fragile older yarn a little more buffer. And I picked out the bind off and gave the other sleeve the same treatment, since I could see it was about to have the same failure.
Now I just have to weave in ends again…
